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VIDEO: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/04/13/men-caught-camera-destroying-protected-rock-formations-lake-mead-national-recreation-area/ ......... National Park Rangers at an ancient rock formation in Nevada are trying to identify two men seen allegedly rolling boulders off a cliff in a video posted on social media, the Sacramento Bee reported. The viral video is believed to be from the evening of April 7 at the Redstone Dune Trail, located in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, according to the Sacramento Bee. @dailymail Authorities are on the hunt for a pair of men who toppled several ancient rocks at Lake Mead National Park. 🎥 Touronsofyellowstone #vandalism #crime #nevada #nationalpark #lakemead #shocking ♬ original sound –...

After years living with a lingering sense of doom, residents have taken some pleasure in seeing Lake Mead fill up a little bit on the strength of a record snowpack for the Colorado River. In fact, the lake is 23 feet higher today than its low point in July of 2022.

As of Monday, California’s snow water equivalent is 199% of normal for this date (January 9), according to the California Department of Water Resources. The Southern Sierra is 222% of normal. The Central Sierra is 201% while the Northern Sierra/Trinity is 173%. The snowpack outlook is also promising along the crucial Colorado River basins which feed Lake Powell and Lake Mead and is Southern California’s primary source of drinking water. Snow water equivalent in the Rockies generally range from 117% to 176% of normal.

Foul play is not suspected, a park spokesperson said Thursday.More human remains were found at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada, marking the sixth discovery this year at the country's largest reservoir, a spokesperson for the federal park said Thursday. The skeletal remains were found in Callville Bay, an area roughly 30 miles east of Las Vegas, after a diver found what appeared to be a human bone on Oct. 17, the spokesperson said in an email. A National Park Service dive team carried out a full search the next day and confirmed a finding of skeletal remains, the...

This summer as Las Vegas deals with a continuing drought, Lake Mead continues to recede. As the lake recedes 5 different sets of human remains have been found in the dried-up lake and now one of the sets of remains has been identified. From NBC News: Skeletal remains found in drought-stricken Lake Mead in May have been identified as those of a 42-year-old man who was reported to have drowned two decades ago, a coroner has found. The remains found May 7 at Callville Bay are one of several discoveries made since May 1 as the water level of the...

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — As the water levels of Lake Mead continue to go down, more human remains are being found. In response to this recent development, Hillary Clinton has been spotted outside Lake Mead desperately trying to fill the lake back up with a garden hose. "This is the fifth body they've found since May, Bill! We gotta get out there now and do something about this!" said Hillary Clinton to her husband in a panic. "Hurry, grab the hose! We have to fill the lake back up!" According to sources, the former Senator and failed Presidential candidate was...

SKELETAL REMAINS FOUND AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA BOULDER CITY, Nev. – National Park Service rangers responded to a report of the discovery of human skeletal remains in the Swim Beach area of Lake Mead National Recreation Area at approximately 8:00 p.m. PST on Monday, Aug. 15. Park rangers have set a perimeter to recover the remains with the support from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team. The Clark County Medical Examiner has also been contacted. The investigation is ongoing. No further information will be provided at this time.

Lake Las Vegas is currently not getting filled with additional water after an intake pipe at Lake Mead can no longer draw water... Water needs to be supplied to Lake Las Vegas due to evaporation. The city reports delivering 1.3 billion gallons of water to the lake from July 2020 to June 2021. The city reports an increase to 1.5 billion within the past year because additional water was put in to compensate for Basic Water Co.’s ceasing operations. Lake Las Vegas is about a 30-minute drive from the Las Vegas strip. There are hotels there including Hilton Lake Las...

More human remains have been found at Lake Mead, marking the third set discovered in the area since early May. On Monday, the National Park Service (NPS) was alerted about human remains at Lake Mead National Recreation Area around 4:30 p.m. local time, the NPS said in a news release. Park rangers arrived on the scene and blocked off the area to "recover the remains," NPS added. The Clark County Medical Examiner has been contacted to determine the cause of death. Authorities are still investigating, the NPS said, adding that "no further information is available at this time." The gripping...

Citizens of Louisiana and Mississippi south of the Old River Control Structure don’t need all that water. All it does is cause flooding and massive tax expenditures to repair and strengthen dikes. The best solution would be for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build an aqueduct from the Old River Control Structure on the Mississippi to Lake Powell, fill it, and then send more water from there down the Colorado to fill lake Mead. About 4.5 million/gals a second flow past that structure on the Mississippi. As mentioned, New Orleans has a problem with that much water anyway,...

A previously sunken World War II-era landing craft that once was 185 feet below the surface of Lake Mead, is being exposed as waters keep shrinking. The Higgins landing craft is nearly two-thirds exposed. It is beached less than a mile from Lake Mead Marina and Hemenway Harbor. The boat was used to survey the Colorado River decades ago, then was sold to a marina and eventually used as an anchor for a breakwater in the sediment, according to D.J. Jenner of Las Vegas Scuba, which conducts various tour dives on the lake, previously including the sunken boat. National Park...

As the West endures another year of unrelenting drought worsened by climate change, the Colorado River’s reservoirs have declined so low that major water cuts will be necessary next year to reduce risks of supplies reaching perilously low levels, a top federal water official said Tuesday. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton said during a Senate hearing in Washington that federal officials now believe protecting “critical levels” at the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Mead and Lake Powell — will require much larger reductions in water deliveries. “A warmer, drier West is what we are seeing today,” Touton told...

Lake Mead is a reservoir is Nevada and Arizona, relied upon for example by the city of Las Vegas for drinking water. Last year, its water level was significantly lower than previous years. This year, it’s even lower. This is dramatic… If the trend does continue for the next two decades as it has been going on for the past two, it seems like things aren’t looking optimal for the Colorado river, the largest water reservoir by capacty in the US, and the Hoover Dam hydroelectric power plant. Lake Mead fell about 7 feet in May. I expect June will...

Years back I believe the discussion of building desalination plants along the coast of California was met with quite the blowback from elitists and Hollywoodites. Do you think the same exists now?

New human remains were found at Lake Mead in Nevada over the weekend, days after a decomposed body was found in a metal barrel at the lake's shrinking shoreline. A witness reported seeing human skeletal remains at Callville Bay within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area at 2 p.m local time on Saturday, the National Park Service said in a release.

The discovery was made by two paddleboarders who say they noticed, what appeared at first glance to be a rock. However, upon further inspection, they realized they had discovered bones. As it stands, there are no signs of foul play, sources tell the 8 News Now I-Team.

While working on a story on the discovery of a barrel that contained human remains at Lake Mead, a news team from KTLA sister station KLAS found a second barrel and alerted police. Boaters discovered the body in the first barrel around 3 p.m. Sunday. While at the lake Monday, a KLAS teamnoticed a second barrel several hundred feet away from the site of the first – also onshore. Police said Tuesday the second barrel was empty. The person found in the first barrel, believed to be a man, is suspected to have been killed in the late-1970s or 1980s,...

Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in Lake Mead.Boaters spotted the barrel Sunday afternoon and the National Park Service was alerted.The agency said in a statement rangers searched an area near Hemenway Harbor and found the barrel with skeletal remains. They are working with Las Vegas police.

A body found in a barrel at Lake Mead on Sunday may have been underwater for as long as four decades and more bodies are likely to appear as the lake recedes due to severe drought, according to Las Vegas Metro police. Boaters discovered the body around 3 p.m. Sunday, KTLA sister station KLAS reported. Police suspect the person was killed in the 1980s based on personal items in the barrel, Las Vegas Metro police homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said. He would not elaborate on the person’s cause of death or the items found, citing the ongoing investigation. A photo...

DENVER – New projections of Colorado River system inflows into Lake Powell and Lake Mead released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation show both reservoirs could reach critical, and lower, levels in the next two years with another drier La Niña weather pattern setting up for the basin this winter. The latest iteration of the Bureau of Reclamation’s two-year study and two- and five-year projections for levels at the two major western reservoirs within the Colorado River system incorporates the new U.S. Climate Normals released earlier this year, which includes data from 1991-2020 and eliminates the wetter conditions...