The park service has extended the deadline for comments on various proposals for how to manage and maintain launch ramps for motorized boaters at Lake Mead.
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A parade of boats traveled the Las Vegas Strip as boating enthusiasts protest the possible closure of boating ramps at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
The National Park Service said, in a newsletter, that removing boat launch ramps at five lake locations remains an option.
Ironically, the community closest to Hoover Dam uses up to 500 million gallons a year one time and then casts it away — just a few miles from a shrinking Lake Mead.
A Clark County teen has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba that he was likely infected with while in Lake Mead, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
California, the Colorado River’s largest water user, has proposed cutting its use by 9 percent starting next year to fight the ongoing drought.
A new water rate structure that will impose hefty levies on the valley’s biggest residential water users was approved Tuesday by a Southern Nevada municipal water board.
While the Las Vegas Valley is not home to any active volcanos, volcanic ash from neighboring states could reach our area and cause saftey issues, researchers say.
Three jurisdictions that provide water to valley customers are investigating more cases with more inspectors and assessing more fines than ever before.
The Basic Water Company can no longer supply water to its customers after Lake Mead’s surface fell below the company’s intake pipeline.
As lake waters recede, Steve Schafer believes more human remains will be found. He is part of a three-person team that has recovered bodies of at least 10 people since 2013. They do so to help families of the missing.
A firearm was found Wednesday in the area where a body was found in a barrel at Lake Mead in May, police said.
Authorities at Lake Mead National Recreation Area found human skeletal remains Monday night.
Lake Mead will head into 2023 under a federal water shortage for the second straight year as the worsening drought continues to ravage the West.
After the National Park Service discovered human remains at Lake Mead, users took to Twitter to speculate on the investigation.
Authorities were working to identify human remains found by a bystander at a Lake Mead National Recreation Area beach.
The summer shrinkage of Lake Mead has drastically slowed, but not stopped.
How Lake Mead grew, reached capacity, then fell over 80 years.
“What has been a slow motion train wreck for 20 years is accelerating, and the moment of reckoning is near,” the head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority told Congress.
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