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Article: Few recall what lies beneath reservoir
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2008
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Glen Canyon isn't the only place "no one knew."
In northeastern Utah, the lost canyons of the Green River also
fall into that category, thanks to 502-foot-high Flaming Gorge Dam.
Roy Webb, a University of Utah archivist, said few seem to care
or realize what lies below Flaming Gorge Reservoir. "Glen Canyon was
not the only place no one knew," he said.
Speaking Thursday on the "Lost Canyons of the Green River" at the
Western History Association's 48th annual conference, he outlined
some of what has been buried in the cold waters.
"The Green (River) is now unfortunately forever changed," he
said, noting the reservoir was completed by 1964, after construction
began in 1958.
Lost was the town of ...