RIVERS -- Real live on a river is a beach. It's nice to get scientific proof.
USGS reports Colorado River releases create sandbars as planned
Glen Canyon Dam has been blocking flood events on the Colorado River for 52 years, essentially obliterating the ecologically important sandbars in the river. In 1996, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began releasing periodic torrents of water to mimic those high flows, but a rule change in 2012 allows such releases as long as conditions warrant. For the past three Novembers, the gates at the dam have been opened to release 100,000 acre feet of water, and a U.S. Geological Survey report released last week said the seasonal gushers are working as planned, with the formation of sandbars downriver.
-- Salt Lake Tribune