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Lake Mead National Recreation Area - National Park Service web
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| "Lake Mead National Recreation Area offers a
wealth of things to do and places to go year-round. Its huge lakes cater
to boaters, swimmers, sunbathers, and fishermen while its desert rewards
hikers, wildlife photographers, and roadside sightseers. It is also home
to thousands of desert plants and animals, adapted to survive in an
extreme place where rain is scarce and temperatures soar." |
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| The Lake Mead Visitor Center, also
called the Alan Bible Visitor Center, is located off of U.S. 93,
four miles southeast of
Boulder City.
See the park maps [this link or below] to find the route best for you. |
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| Wikipedia pages for Lake Mead...
"Lake Mead is the largest man-made
lake and
reservoir in the
United States. It is located on the
Colorado River about 30
miles (48
km) southeast of
Las Vegas,
Nevada,
in the states of Nevada and
Arizona.
Formed by water impounded by
Hoover Dam, it extends 110 mi (180 km) behind the dam, holding
approximately 28.5 million
acre feet (35 km³) of water. The water held in Lake Mead is released
to communities in southern
California,[1]
via
aqueducts, and Nevada."
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| Hoover Dam |
| "Hoover Dam is a testimony to a country's
ability to construct monolithic projects in the midst of adverse
conditions. Built during the Depression; thousands of men and their
families came to Black Canyon to tame the Colorado River. It took less
than five years, in a harsh and barren land, to build the largest dam of
its time. Now, years later, Hoover Dam still stands as a world-renowned
structure. The Dam is a National Historic Landmark and has been rated by
the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern
Civil Engineering Wonders." [Excerpt is from USBR - below.] |
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HOOVER DAM - US Bureau of Reclamation Web Pages |
| "When Hoover Dam was finished in 1935 it was
the tallest dam in the world. From about 1938 until 1948 the Hoover Dam
power plant was the largest hydroelectric producer in the world. Since
then, bigger but not necessarily better facilities have been built, and
people often ask us what is the biggest dam in the world today? The answer
depends on what you mean by biggest. Do you mean the tallest dam? Or do
you mean the one with the most material in it? Or, how about the biggest
hydroelectric producer? The answer to each of these questions is a
different dam."
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| Wiki pages for Hoover Dam... |
| "Hoover Dam, also known as Boulder
Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the
Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and
Nevada. When completed in 1935, it was both the world's largest electric
power producing facility and the world's largest concrete structure. It
was surpassed in both respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is
currently the world's 34th largest hydroelectric generating station."
read more from Wiki... |
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| LAKE POWELL -
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area |
"Encompassing over 1.2 million acres, Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area (NRA) offers unparalleled opportunities for water-based &
backcountry recreation. The recreation area stretches for hundreds of
miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah,
encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human
history." |
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| Wiki Information for Lake Powell: |
| "Lake Powell is a man-made
reservoir on the
Colorado River, straddling the border between
Utah and
Arizona.
It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind
Lake
Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet (30 km³) of water when full. Lake
Powell was created by the flooding of
Glen Canyon by the controversial
Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the creation of
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular summer destination.
The reservoir is named for explorer
John Wesley Powell, a one-armed
American Civil War veteran who explored the river via three wooden
boats in 1869.
In 1972, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area was established. It is
public land managed by the National Park Service, and available to the
public for recreational purposes."
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