DATE: Wednesday, September 24, 1997         TAG: 9709240379

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: B1   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY JAMES BROOKE, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE 

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FOCUS: LAKE POWELL ENVIRONMENTALISTS PROPOSE DRAINING LAKE POWELL, A HUGE, MAN-MADE FACILITY ON THE UTAH-ARIZONA BORDER, TO PROTECT THE GRAND CANYON ECOSYSTEM AND RECOVER A LOST CANYON.

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Lake Powell, built in 1957, provides electricity, supports tourism

and recreation, and serves as a source of water for Phoenix, Las

Vegas and Los Angeles.

Environmentalists and recreationists agree on the beauty of the

red-rock canyons that line Lake Powell. But the Sierra Club wants to

drain the reservoir - the second-largest man-made lake in the United

States - to restore the canyons' full splendor.

Lake Powell has become a tourism mecca and is the lifeblood of Page,

Ariz. Last year, 2.5 million people visited the remote reservoir.

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