Flooding Arizona - Grand Canyon

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cutting through and creating this magnificent canyon," Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said after he pulled the lever releasing the water from Glen Canyon Dam, upstream from Grand Canyon National Park. More than 300000 gallons of water per second were being released from Lake Powell above the dam near the Arizona-Utah More » border. That's enough water to fill the Empire State Building in 20 minutes, Kempthorne said. The water gushed from the dam into the Colorado River below, creating a churning ...