Echo Park Dam

Echo Park Dam
Locations of the proposed dams and reservoirs
Location of the proposed Echo Park Dam
Country	United States
Location	Northwestern Colorado
Coordinates	40°32′43.45″N 109°00′30.35″W / 40.5454028°N 109.0084306°W / 40.5454028; -109.0084306
Status	Unbuilt
Owner(s)	U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Concrete thick arch
Impounds	Green River
Height	529 ft (161 m)
Reservoir
Total capacity	6,400,000 acre-feet (7.9 km3)
Normal elevation	5,500 ft (1,700 m)[1]
Power Station
Installed capacity	200 MW

Echo Park Dam was proposed in the 1950s by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as a central feature of the Colorado River Storage Project. Situated on the Green River, a major tributary of the Colorado River, the dam was proposed for the Echo Park district of Dinosaur National Monument, flooding much of the Green and Yampa river valleys in the monument. The dam was bitterly opposed by preservationists, who saw the encroachment of a dam into an existing national park as another Hetch Hetchy, to be opposed as an appropriation of protected lands for development purposes. The Echo Park project was abandoned in favor of Glen Canyon Dam on the main stem of the Colorado, in lands that were not at that time protected. This was eventually regarded as a strategic mistake by conservation organizations.