Title: Lake Mead Description: Lake Mead; Hoover Dam; Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States, was created by water impounded by Hoover Dam in 1936, located on the Colorado River and Lake Mead extends 112 miles behind the dam holding (on average per year) 28.5 million acre feet of water, which is periodically released through aqueducts to communities in Nevada and Southern California; the lake was named after Elwood Mead (1858-1936), who headed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 to his death in 1936; Mead also supervised the construction of the Grand Coulee and Owyhee dams; Lake Mead draws most of its water from snowmelt from the Western Colorado Rockies and, at this writing undergoing a serious decline that may lead to drought conditions; the lake offers many resort areas that include boating, swimming, and fishing; (AKA: Boulder Dam; completed in 1936 at a cost of $49 million), an arch-gravity concrete dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border of U.S. States Nevada and Arizona, located approximately thirty miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada; 1244 feet in length; 726.4 feet in height; at the time of its completion, Hoover Dam, named after President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), who was instrumental in launching its construction, was the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure, until surpassed in both respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. Location: Lake Mead, August 8, 2009 Category: Geography Topic: Nevada Subject: Lake Mead Keywords: architecture, boating, constructions, dams, fishing, lakes, holidays, recreation areas, resort areas, swimming, tourism, tourists, water retaining structures, vacationers, vacations, water sports. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 3000 x 1800 (5.40 MPixels) (1.67) Print Size: 25.4 x 15.2 cm; 10.0 x 6.0 inches File Size: 15.47 MB (16,225,824 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000257092c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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