This page features photos of Navajo Generating Station, a large coal-fired power plant near Page, Arizona that was decommissioned in 2019.
The power plant was built, in part, to provide electricity to run the pumps of the Central Arizona Project, which transports Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson.
| Date | December 27, 2019 |
| Location | Navajo Generating Station near Page, Arizona (map) |
| Photographer | Mitch Tobin |
| Organization | The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| Rights | Free to reuse under Creative Commons license, with credit to “Mitch Tobin/stg-waterdeskorg-staging.kinsta.cloud” |
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