Flaming Gorge Dam Utah

Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green River

Green River as it Exits the Dam

Above the Dam

Osprey was fishing just to the East of this Island

Green River Above the Dame

This river's headwater are about 150 miles north into Wyoming

and is part of a water storage system for the west.

The Green River joins the Colorado River about 240 miles downstream and continues on into Glen Canyon and eventually through the Glen Canyon Dam and South through the Grand Canyon. From there it flows to Lake Mead in Nevada and on through Hoover Dam. Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and California are already at odds over this water. St. George is trying to build a pipeline 150 mi long to supply water for new development. Water is a BIG issue in the west.

After leaving Hoover Dam, it flows on through Davis Dam and forms the western boundry between Arizona and California. As it flows on, it will be dammed again in the Imperial Valley of California, the Imperial Dam. The Colorado flows on into Mexico and "I have heard" that by the time it reaches the Gulf of California between Baja and the Mainland of Mexico that it is nothing but a muddy stream.

But, hey we got ours!