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STATE <br /> <br />SPORTS <br /> <br />ARIZONA LIVING <br /> <br />OPINIONS <br /> <br />BUSINESS <br /> <br />OPINIONS online print edition <br /> <br />Print This I Email This I Most Popular I Subscribe I Larger Type I Smaller Type <br /> <br />It's a lake, dammit <br /> <br />Bid to 1"ename Powell is an insult to history and damaging to state <br /> <br />Aug, 1,2004 12:00 AM <br /> <br />lake Powell was named for explorer John Wesley Powell, whose <br />exploits along the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon are the <br />stuff of legend and, we might add, the writing of beautiful, descriptive <br />passages of the power and majesty of those places, <br /> <br />Formed by Glen Canyon Dam and about 180 miles long, with more than <br />2,000 miles of shoreline in Arizona and Utah and the nation's second <br />largest man-made lake, its name is known far and wide, <br /> <br />But a single-focus conservation group from Durango. Cola" wants to <br />jettison the name lake Powell and replace it with Glen Canyon Reservoir <br />for the flimsiest of reasons: It technically isn't a lake but a man-made <br />reservoir and there's another Lake Powell in the Colorado River <br />watershed, <br /> <br />Don.t be fooled, <br /> <br />The Coalition to Rename lake Powell isn't going down this path for <br />Iinguislic purity or to end non-existent confusion over two lakes of the <br />same name. <br /> <br />There is only one reason for this hue and cry, and that's to lend credence <br />to the coalition's campaign to decommission Glen Canyon Dam and <br />drain the lake, <br /> <br />In the eyes of the coalition, changing the name to Glen Canyon <br />Reservoir underscores the fact the lake is man-made, and that beneath <br />its waters is Glen Canyon, which ought to be restored to its pre-dam <br />grandeur. <br /> <br />It's a campaign Ihat's hard to take seriously. if for no other reason than <br />lake Powell's importance to the West. With the drought along the <br />Colorado River in its fiflh year and lake Powell at about 42 percent of <br />capacity, ii's unfathomable to Ihink how much worse off we'd be without <br />Glen Canyon Dam and lake Powell, <br /> <br />That doesn't matter to the coalition, The dam must go, it says, dismissive <br />of the fact that it stores water for millions of people in Arizona, California <br />and Nevada; produces power for a million households; and forms a lake <br />that's vilal to the tourist induslry in northern Arizona, <br /> <br />The decision whether to rename lake Powell ultimately will be up to the <br />U.S, Board on Geographic Names, which wants to hear from state <br />boards in Arizona and Utah, Arizona has delayed a decision until Indian <br />tribes are able to take a position, <br /> <br />This should be a no-brainer for both the state board and the national <br />board when the matter comes before them in a few months, <br /> <br />lake Powell, an essential part of the economy of Page and the region. is <br />aptly named and should remain so, <br /> <br />Prinl This I Email This I Most Popular I Subscribe I larger Type I Smaller Type <br /> <br />http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/80 1 su02-0 I.html <br /> <br />> azcentral.com <br /> <br />Steve Benson <br />See whal Q <br />The Arizona ~ . <br />Republic's "'.:... <br />Pulitzer ~I <br />Prize- <br />winning cartoonist has <br />drawn up lately. <br /> <br />Opinions <br />columns <br />. 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