Why we should keep Lake Powell
What is 186 miles long, has 1,960 miles of shoreline, can store 27 million acre-feet of water, has nearly 3 million visitors each year, 400 million in annual revenues and has over five million cubic yards of concrete or enough to build a four-lane highway stretching from Phoenix, Arizona to Chicago, Illinois? It is none other than beautiful Lake Powell located in Northern Arizona adjacent to the Glen Canyon Dam. The Sierra Club and the Glen Canyon Institute which are both located in California and Arizona respectively have created a combined initiative to drain Lake Powell in a foolish and vain attempt to restore Glen Canyon to what it used to be. The Glen Canyon Institute states that it is “Dedicated to restoring a free-flowing Colorado River through Glen Canyon and the Grand Canyon". My speech is on why we not only shouldn’t drain Lake Powell, but how draining it will affect many people in many states economically as well as financially. GCI and The Sierra Club, who are the driving forces behind the idea of draining, would have us believe that Lake Powell is not necessary and “counterproductive” to the uses it was intended for. This idea is tw
Now that we know that this situation is serious, what is an avid outdoor enthusist to do? How can we be of help in this cause?! Lucky for us, we have a say. The best way is to personally educate yourself on this issue with the pro's and con's. There are so many reasons to keep Lake Powell, that I cannot say them all in this short amount of time. However, online, you will find three sites Lake Powell in website form: www.lakepowell.org, www.lakepowell.net and www.lakepowell.com. You can also go to an online search engine like www.google.com and type in quotes "Lake Powell" and then put the word drain outside the quotes. This pulls up a myriad of different websites dedicated to this topic. The next option you have after you know the facts, is to write your congressman. Let them know that you care about the beauty and contributions of the Glen Canyon/Lake Powell recreation area. You can tell your congressman that you want to be part of a growing movement to save one of the most beautiful and well used lakes and that you care about the impact that draining the lake would have for the negative. If enough people show their care, we can share this playspot for generations to come. The last thing you can do is to join a group that supports keeping the Lake as it is. One of these is the "Friends of Lake Powell" and can be reached via the website www.lakepowell.org.
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