In the Flow
Colorado River
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Wind and weather have spent the last 2 billion years whittling away at ancient remnants of volcanoes, mountains, seas, and sand dunes, shaping deposits into narrow side canyons, chiseled ridgelines, and towering spires, buttes, and knobs that we call the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River, in modern form, has worked to perfect this mile-deep, 18-mile-wide gorge over the past 6 million years. As the river continues to carve into the layers of time, humans have worked to protect this remarkable feat of nature for over a century. President Woodrow Wilson converted the Grand Canyon National Monument into a national park in 1919. Neither a monument or park protects the watershed around it. Uranium mines began altering the landscape just outside park boundary in the 1950s, even though wind and weather can carry waste rock, ore, radioactive materials, and heavy metals into the canyon and contaminate surface water and groundwater.
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