Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest. As of 2023, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity. Now scientists are reporting a new discovery on Lake Mead’s dry bed: rocks laced with volcanic ash that rained down on southern Nevada during explosive eruptions roughly 12 million years ago.
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In the case of Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir, diminishing waters have in recent months uncovered long-buried secrets and other mysterious finds: at least three sets of human remains, including a body inside a barrel that could be linked to a mob killing, and a sunken boat dating back to the second world war.
Lake Mead, on the Colorado River at the Nevada-Arizona border, is the largest reservoir in the U.S. The reservoir supplies water to roughly 25 million people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico.
Lake Mead’s water level continues to fall to historic lows, bringing the reservoir less than 150 feet away from a “dead pool” — so low that water cannot flow downstream from the dam.
