Grand Canyon Flood Created New Sandbars

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Four giant steel tubes release a manmade flood last week March 7 2008 into the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam in Page. Grand Canyon officials say the effects of the flood were immediate and substantial. (AP PhotoAmanda Lee Myers)
Four giant steel tubes release a manmade flood last week, March 7, 2008, into the Colorado River below the Glen Canyon Dam in Page. Grand Canyon officials say the effects of the flood were immediate and substantial. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)

(AP) -- The Grand Canyon boasts new sandbars ranging in size from small nooks and crannies to ones as large as football fields, the results of a manmade flood designed to nourish the ecosystem of the Colorado River, an official said.


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