Floyd E. Dominy dies at 100; federal water official oversaw major dam projects

He was commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under four presidents from 1959 to 1969. His tenure was marked by the opening of Glen Canyon Dam, which plugged the Colorado River. Floyd E. Dominy, a federal water official with an outsize personality who shepherded some of the West's last big dam projects to completion, has died. He was 100.

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