News Stories

  • Bureau of Reclamation

    Jan 13, 2017
    Reclamation's Lower Colorado Regional Office Leads by Example in Regards to Energy Efficiency

    The Lower Colorado Regional Office in Boulder City, Nevada, is a great example of how Reclamation is incorporating energy saving strategies into its infrastructural adaptations in order to maintain Reclamation’s commitment to sustainable building and historic preservation. In addition to the ... (Read More →)

  • Bureau of Reclamation

    Jan 11, 2017
    Fossils on Reclamation Lands Provide a Glimpse Into the Past

    When two fishermen on Harry Strunk Lake (Medicine Creek Dam) pulled ashore to stretch, in the summer of 2015, they noticed something odd protruding out along the beach at the base of a bluff. They looked at the object, and how it was eroding and realized they had happened upon a fossil. The ... (Read More →)

  • Bureau of Reclamation

    Jan 11, 2017
    WYAO Rope Access Team Addresses Rock Scaling Issues at Guernsey

    The Wyoming Area Office (WYAO) rope team was mobilized in late October 2016 to address a number of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) recommendations at Guernsey Dam. The two main concerns related to potential rock fall hazards on the downstream side of the dam. One large slab of limestone w... (Read More →)

  • Bureau of Reclamation

    Jan 11, 2017
    Twin Buttes Reservoir Lands Join Texas Parks & Wildlife Public Hunting Program

    The San Angelo Project was authorized and constructed to provide water for municipal and agricultural uses, flood control, fish and wildlife, and recreational benefits. The City of San Angelo is the operating entity for the Project.


    Reclamation's Oklahoma-Texas Area Office entered ... (Read More →)

  • Bureau of Reclamation

    Jan 11, 2017
    The Lower Yellowstone Project Accommodating Endangered Species

    Located in far eastern Montana, about 70 miles upstream from the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers near Glendive, is the Lower Yellowstone Intake Project (LYIP), a diversion dam and 72-mile canal built to provide irrigation. The intake dam and canal system diverts enough ... (Read More →)

  • Budget

    Jan 11, 2017
    Stretching Water Supplies

    Reclamation is bringing expertise and funding to bear to help the city of Norman, Oklahoma be proactive in ensuring long-term reliability of local groundwater supplies by testing different technologies to treat hexavalent chromium (chromium-6). Norman's groundwater provides a critical supply ... (Read More →)

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