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More human bodies found on Lake Mead

"Mega Drought" threatens western water supply

The low water level of Lake Mead has prompted the federal government to consider declaring a water shortage on the Colorado River

National Park Service personnel are investigating Another sighting report of thebodyfound on Lake Mead was released on Monday. 

At the time of the announcement, few details of the obvious findings were announced. This was announced by the NPS shortly after the Park Ranger received a witness report at around 4:30 pm. EST (Eastern Reference Time. According to NPS, an unidentified person was killed while visiting part of Lake Mead's National Recreation Area, called Swim Beach, in the Boulder Basin area of ​​a reservoir about 30 miles east of Las Vegas.

Lake Mead Human Remains
Monday, May 9, 2022, on the surface of Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, once underwater There was a rusty debris, near Boulder City, Nevada John Locher / AP

Park Ranger arrived at the scene on Monday afternoon. NPS said. Authorities notified Clark County Inspector of Death to determine the cause of death while the ranger was setting boundaries to mark and close the area where the reported bodies were to be recovered. Authorities have not yet provided additional information as a formal investigation into the area is underway.

The discovery on Monday was a similar series. It was the latest in a nervous report. Due to the severe and ongoing drought, the water level of Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States, about 120 miles between eastern Nevada and western Arizona) was . Sinks to the lowest pointIn almost a century, human bodies have been found many times this year near the new coast.

Last May, Swim Beach A few days after a boater found abarrel carrying the body of at the port of Hemenway, just three miles from, the NPShumans. The skeletal remainswere found about 25 miles north in another section of Lake Mead called Coleville Bay. Local police later found the body at the port of Hemenway. He said he had identified him as a victim of the shooting , indicating that the shoes were likely killed in the mid-1970s or early 1980s.

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  • Arizona
  • Lake Mead
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  • Nevada

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