Posted on 07/02/2022 4:22:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Built in New Orleans no doubt. IIRC wasn’t there a post about them not too long ago? Higgins boats that is.
so the lake was this level in 1955 and 1965 ?
I was there last month.
It took me almost 30 minutes to walk from where the normal marina/dock was to the actual current lake level now.
It’s unbelievable how much of that water is gone.
The Hoover Dam folks will not answer questions about lake levels and “what if” scenarios considering the current circumstances.
30 minutes?
There’s dirty work afoot
Yep.
Lots of dips, turns, crevices to avoid. If I were to measure the distance it was about 1/2 mile. I was near Valley of Fire State Park.
Lake Mud
No - this is the level the boat sunk to ... the surface level was higher. Probably about 175’ higher.
A friend and I drove from Wichita to California in a Jeep back in the 70’s, with the top down. After driving through the Valley of Fire, the top went up.
No I looked up the levels of the lake over the years , this time they’re probably doing it for their Global Warming scam
At the current rate, within two years the outflow from Lake Mead will equal the inflow to Lake Mead, minus evaporation and whatever Las Vegas takes.
And some of the water that exits Lake Mead is promised by treaty to Mexico.
Won’t be leaving much for AZ and CA.
Global Warming scam or no Global Warming scam, the lake, for much of its history, was much higher than it is now.
Vegas takes 440,000 acre feet on a typical year and returns just over half that via the Las Vegas wash the total net consumption is 243,000 acre feet per year well under the allowed 300,000 and a drop in the bucket to California’s 4,400,000 per year.
Vegas recycles every drop that just a drain in the basin back to Lake Mead or uses it as reclaimed water for fountains, AC cooling towers, golf courses or athletic fields. Since those uses are consumptive they are in the above total use. Vegas gets credit for every gallon put back into Lake Mead and has banked water for ten years plus now.
With the third intake online at 860’ MSL they have access to 35 feet of water inside the dead pool of Lake Mead where no water would flow down stream once 895’ MSL is reached those 35 feet hold over two million acre feet of water about 12 years worth for Vegas this doesn’t include the inflows from rivers down stream from Lake Powell that cannot be held by the upper basin should Lake Powell also go dead pool. Those flows are in the 300,000 to 500,000 acre feet per year alone even in severe drought so Vegas has by drilling and tunneling to the deep water ensured a water supply effectively for a millennium or more which is the lifespan of Hoover dam at its current sedimentation rate.
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2019/sep/22/las-vegas-water-use-dropped-prominent-residents/
As a point of comparison my last water use was 12,000 gallons last month for two people half that was well water but it is tracked due to our ground water District. We got North Texas Council of governments water at the same time atmos piped in natural gas down our gravel road. NTCG water is so much better tasting than the crap well water we get from the aquifer here.
That may all be true, but sometime in the next year or two all the usable stored water in Lake Mead will be gone and nothing will flow out (with the exception of the LV usage) that didn’t flow in that year.
And that’s going to be a lot less than what’s flowing out now.
Inflows are currently 60% of average flows. You are right when not if Lake Mead goes dead pool only Vegas will have water from that River behind Hoover dam but they will be fine since the inflows at no point in history have been below 1 million acre feet at the entrance to the Canyon country North of Lake Mead even without any flow from the upper basin Lake Mead still has tributaries below Lake Powell and those have never flowed below 250,000 acre feet even at 50% of normal flows those tributaries supply more than Vegas needs if no water can be taken from Lake Mead when it’s below the outlets at Hoover dam.
All the data you seek.
https://lakemead.water-data.com/
http://lakemead.water-data.com/rivers.php
I’ve been watching water-data.com for years. ;-)
Las Vegas will probably be fine, but everyone downstream who has plans for water to be released from Hoover Dam might ought to be contemplating alternatives.
I was there about 40 years ago, very impressed with the beauty of the lake. Not sure whether it was full or just close to it. Very sad to see these pictures today.
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