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In the wetlands, looking west. The Clark County Wetlands Park is the largest park in the Clark County, Nevada park system. The park is on the east side of the Las Vegas valley and runs from the various water treatment plants near the natural beginning of the Las Vegas Wash to where the wash flows under Lake Las Vegas and later into Lake Mead.
Lake Mead was established as the Boulder Dam Recreation Area in 1936, administered by the National Park Service. [10] The name was changed to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 1947, and Lake Mohave and the Shivwits Plateau were later added to its jurisdiction. [ 11 ]
State Route 564 (SR 564) is an east–west highway in Clark County, Nevada, in the southeast portion of the Las Vegas Valley.The route travels through the city of Henderson, traveling from the junction of Interstate 215 (I-215) and I-11, also part of U.S. Route 93 (US 93) and US 95, to Lake Las Vegas, ending near Lake Mead.
Water sports at the Lake Mead reservoir are a major draw for the park’s 6 million annual visitors, but extreme drought in the West has caused the lake’s water levels to plummet in recent years ...
The water level at Lake Mead was measured at 1,044.03 feet on Wednesday — the lowest elevation since it was filled in the 1930s. ... smoke seen from Six Flags park. Weather. USA TODAY.
Lake Las Vegas in 2007 State Eng Final inspection completed in May 1991, fill commenced in June. Lake Las Vegas is a 320-acre (130 ha) reservoir in Henderson, Nevada with a 3,592-acre (1,454 ha) developed area around it.
The set of human remains found in Lake Mead last week was also found on the Nevada side of the lake. A comparison of satellite images of Callville Bay on Aug. 7, 2000 (left), and Aug. 9, 2021 (right).
Las Vegas Wash is a 12-mile-long stream (an "arroyo" or "wash") which feeds most of the Las Vegas Valley's excess water into Lake Mead.The wash is sometimes called an urban river, and it exists in its present capacity because of an urban population.