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LAS VEGAS — More human remains were found at drought-hit Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, officials said Sunday.
The ruins have been discovered for the fourth time since May, as drought in the West recedes shoreline in the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam.
A National Park Service official said rangers were called to a reservoir between Nevada and Arizona around 11 a.m. Saturday after human bones were found on Swim Beach.
Rangers and a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department diving team headed to retrieve the body.
Park Service officials said the Clark County coroner's office said investigators were reviewing missing person records to try to determine when and how the person died. rice field.
On May 1, barrels containing human remains were found near Hemenway Harbor. Police believe the body belonged to a man who died from a gunshot wound and that the body was likely dumped in the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
Then less than a week later, authorities announced that human bones had been found in Calvil Bay.
Most recently, a partial human remains was found in the Boulder Beach area on July 25th.
Police speculate that more bodies may be found as Lake Mead's water levels continue to drop.
These discoveries are about long-standing missing persons and murders dating back decades to organized crime and the dawn of organized crime in Las Vegas, just a 30-minute drive from the lake. Inviting speculation.
Since the reservoir filled up in 1983, the lake level has dropped more than 170 feet (52 meters).
Lake levels have fallen while the majority of peer-reviewed science states. The world is warming mainly due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Scientists say the western United States, including the Colorado River Basin, has become warmer and drier over the past 30 years.
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