Photo courtesy LMNRA Recently, Assisting Lives in Las Vegas donated hundreds of lifejackets to Lake Mead National Recreation Area. They are now part of the park’s lifejacket loaner program. The ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for ...

The corps manages 400 lake and river projects in 43 states ... The USACE maintains an ongoing map and list of sites with full or partial closures, including those due to flooding or storm damage and ...

Should Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, continue to shrink, a substantial drop in the dam’s hydropower output is on the horizon. The diminished state of the lake and the potential severe ...

At Lake Mead, a similar forecast has water levels falling low enough by April 2027 to possibly severely curtail power production at Hoover Dam.

“Hoover Dam generates enough power for 1.3 million people and in addition, Southern Nevada gets nearly 90% of its water from Lake Mead and it also generates tourism. I believe seven million people ...

The Southwest and Rocky Mountain states are reviewing a plan that could split Colorado River water based on actual flows, not storage.

Bleak projections for Lake Mead show the nation’s largest reservoir dropping to a new low in less than a year and a half, and plunging 11 feet below that by May 2027.

The Colorado River’s average flows have fallen by roughly 20% since 2000, and power generation at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam, which creates Lake Mead on the state line between Arizona and ...

New Rochelle, which owns part of the Lake Isle Dam, has threatened to dismantle its section of the dam, which would lower the lake by 12 feet.

The amount of groundwater that has been pumped out of the Colorado River Basin since 2003 is enough to fill Lake Mead, researchers report in a study published earlier this week.