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	Lake Mead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States.
		The water held in Lake Mead is released via aqueducts to communities in southern California and Nevada.
		The lake was named after Elwood Mead, who was commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 to 1936 during the planning and construction of the Boulder Canyon Project that created the dam and lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Mead (420 words)

	EO Study: Drought Lowers Lake Mead
		Lake Mead is one of the most important water resources in the West.
		Lake Mead lake is divided into four major basins: (from west to east) the Boulder, Virgin, and Gregg Basins, plus the Overton Arm which extends northward from the Virgin Basin to the confluence of the lake with the Virgin and Muddy Rivers.
		Lake Mead is still a huge lake with enough water for the many recreational opportunities for the eight to ten million people who visit it each year.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Study/LakeMead (1474 words)

	Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System, Lake Mead NRA - Land Use Issues at Off-Road.com for September ...
		Lake Mead NRA is the premier, inland water recreation area in the west with 1.5 million acres, of which approximately 13 percent is the lake environment.
		Lake Mead is also within a 20-minute drive of the 1.4 million people in the Las Vegas Valley, which is one of the fastest-growing communities and tourism destinations in the country.
		At Lake Mead NRA of particular importance is bird habitat at the inflow areas of the Colorado, Muddy, and Virgin rivers, and along portions of Lake Mohave.
	www.off-road.com /land/lake_mead_proposed_rule.html (10384 words)

	Information guide to Lake Mead and surrounding cities of Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City
		Lake Mead was the first of four fantastic lakes created by man on the Colorado River by building Hoover Dam.
		Lake Mead is in a beautiful desert environment with over 550 miles of shoreline when full.
		Lake Mead is one of the largest man made lakes in the world with over 157,000 acres of water (247 sq.
	www.riverlakes.com /lakemead.htm (1257 words)

	Lake Mead NRA: Description - DesertUSA
		Lake Mead National Recreation Area was established October 8, 1964.
		Lake Mead backs up 110 miles behind Hoover Dam which was completed in 1935, thus creating this huge reservoir.
		Lake Mead NRA is home to bighorn sheep, mule deer, coyotes, kit foxes, bobcats, ringtail cats, numerous lizards and snakes and a wealth of bird species.
	www.desertusa.com /colorado/lm_nra/lake_mead/du_meaddesc.html (398 words)

	Lake Mead page
		The resulting lake, named Lake Mead after Reclamation Commissioner Dr. Elwood Mead, is the largest man-made reservoir in the United States, capable of holding a remarkable 9.2-trillion gallons of water (which equates to almost two years' average flow of the Colorado River).
		Lake Mead itself stretches from the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona westward through several arms or basins connected by narrow canyons, and ends at Hoover Dam 30 miles/48 km southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
		Lake Mead Marina boat harbor and the adjacent Scuba Park are the center of diving activity, although there are several other shore entry sites nearby.
	www.dtmag.com /dive-usa/LakeMeadNV.html (1413 words)

	Lake Mead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lake Mead is the 16th largest man-made lake in the world and the largest man-made lake in the Western Hemisphere.
		Lake Mead is surrounded by red sandstone and fl lava rock in the 1.6 billion-year-old Black Canyon.
		Lake Mead facilities include eight campgrounds, five motels, seven RV campgrounds with hookups, five marinas, boat and jet ski rentals, beaches, restaurants, cafes, snack bars and a visitors center.
	www.vegas.com /sports/recreation/lakemead.html (366 words)

	Lake Mead NRA
		Lake Mohave Resort (928/754-3245 or 800/752-9669, www.sevencrown.com) provides a motel ($85-95 d in summer, $35-45 d in winter; add $20 for a kitchenette), house rental ($240), RV park ($18 w/hookups), restaurant (daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner), marina with boat rentals (fishing, ski, patio, and houseboats), store, boat ramp, showers, dump station, and laundry.
		Lake Mead, held back by Hoover Dam, is the largest artificial lake in the United States and holds the equivalent of two years' flow of the Colorado River.
		Lake Mead Lodge (322 Lakeshore Rd., 702/293-2074 or 800/752-9669, www.sevencrown.com, $75-175 d, less in midwinter) lies on the north side of Boulder Beach with lake views.
	www.arizonahandbook.com /lakemead.htm (3884 words)

	USATODAY.com - Western storms help raise Lake Mead water level (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Water officials expect the lake will drop 12.5 feet by the end of the year as the region's drought continues into its sixth year and as water is pumped out to Las Vegas and other areas that use the lake's water.
		Lake Powell is about 35% full, and should rise about 45 feet to become more than half full this year, Wirth said.
		Lake Mead benefitted from storms reducing water demand from farms and cities that draw from the Colorado River, and from gushing river tributaries above and below Hoover Dam.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/stormcenter/2005-02-18-lake-mead_x.htm (473 words)

	USGS Activities in Nevada Water-Quality Monitoring at Lake Mead
		Lake Mead on the Colorado River is one of the most intensely used reservoirs in the western United States, providing recreational watercraft activities and domestic drinking, industrial, and irrigation water for over 22 million users.
		Inflow into Lake Mead primarily is from the Colorado River; however, about 3 percent of the inflow is from tributaries on the northern side of the Lake and from Las Vegas Wash on the northwest side of the Lake.
		Two of the platforms are located in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead, in Las Vegas Bay and near Sentinel Island; a third platform is located in the Overton Arm Basin near the Overton Marina; and the fourth platform is located in the Virgin Basin, near the Narrows, which separates the Virgin and Boulder Basins.
	nevada.usgs.gov /lmqw (271 words)

	Lake Mead National Recreation Area
		Middle- to Late-Devonian-age limestone is assigned to the Sultan Formation in the Lake Mead area and the Temple Butte Formation in the Grand Canyon region.
		Erosional processes probably dominated the landscape in the Lake Mead region during the Early Tertiary Period (Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene Epochs) because no trace of rocks of those ages are preserved in the park region.
		The Muddy Creek Formation is exposed throughout the park area and displays evidence of having been folded and faulted, particularly along the Lake Mead shear zone on the north side of the park.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /2005/lakemead/html/lame_history.htm (4591 words)

	Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For even with the drought, the lake is still 465 feet deep at the dam, holds 12 million acre-feet of water in storage, and extends 160 miles uplake from Page.
		They claim that the initial filling of Lake Powell was a fluke event produced by the unlikely occurrence of back-to-back 100-year floods in the mid-1980's.
		Lake Mead provides water for drinking, power, recreation, and the irrigation of a million acres of farmland.
	www.lakepowell.org /page_two/what_s_new/friends_response.htm (1327 words)

	USGS Studies in Lake Mead Mapping
		It thins to 15-25 m in the central third of the lake, and then gradually increases in thickness in the western third of the lake.
		The distribution of sediment in Lake Mead indicates that the Colorado River is the primary source of sediment to the lake.
		The flows probably move fastest in the eastern part of the lake where the lake floor slope is steeper.
	woodshole.er.usgs.gov /project-pages/LakeMead/mapping.htm (668 words)

	Lake Mead and Surrounding Area
		Lake Mead NRA is home to bighorn sheep, mule deer, coyotes, kit foxes, bobcats, ringtail cats, desert tortoise, numerous lizards and snakes, and a wealth of bird species.
		A wildlife sanctuary located at the tip of the Overton Arm of the lake is populated by a variety of birds.
		Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the U.S. (based on storage capacity) was created by the construction of Hoover Dam, one of the country's modern engineering wonders.
	www.canyon-country.com /mead/meadinfo.htm (806 words)

	Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the Hoover Dam, Arizona
		Either side of the Grand Canyon, the Colorado river is dammed forming two huge artificial lakes; Lake Powell in Utah and Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border (named after Dr. Elwood Mead, Reclamation Commissioner from 1924 to 1936).
		Now, the lake forms the major component of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 1.5 million acres that extends quite far south and includes 25 miles of the Colorado River plus the smaller Lake Mohave.
		The Shoreline: There are also several roads leading to beaches on the south edge of the Lake Mead - at Temple Bar, reached by a lonely 28 mile drive along a side road off US 93 south of Hoover Dam, there is a lively marina with an RV site and plenty of colorful desert scenery.
	www.americansouthwest.net /arizona/lake_mead/nra.html (698 words)

	Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Arizona Travel & Vacation Guide
		Take a Lake Mead houseboat vacation and cruise Lake Mead in the bright sun, or head backcountry for some serious desert hiking.
		Lake Mead NRA is located along the western Arizona border.
		Lake Mead itself is in the northwest corner of Arizona, 25 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada.
	www.go-arizona.com /Lake-Mead-National-Recreation-Area (276 words)

	Lake Mead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lake Mead is a long lake measuring 110 miles in length.
		In 1964, the Lake Mead Recreational Area was established.
		Lake Mead is special, in that three of America’s four desert ecosystems are located there.
	www.arizonan.com /Kingman/lakemead.htm (667 words)

	Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Lake Mead National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)
		Its huge lakes cater to boaters, swimmers, sunbathers, and fishermen while its desert rewards hikers, wildlife photographers, and roadside sightseers.
		Lakes Mead and Mohave are reservoirs created by Hoover and Davis Dam.
		About 96 percent of the water in Lake Mead is from melted snow that fell in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.
	www.nps.gov /lame (287 words)

	Lake Mead
		Lake Mead's 550 miles of shoreline is surrounded by a varied terrain, ranging from sandy sloping beaches to unique multi-hued rock formations and sheer cliffs.
		Lake Mead is created by Hoover Dam, one of the country's modern engineering wonders.
		On the Arizona side of the lake, the nearby mining towns of Oatman and Chloride provide an exciting look into the life of the Old West.
	www.sevencrown.com /lakes/lake_mead/index.htm (256 words)

	Lake Mead NRA - Information - Maps - Directions - Drought Effects - Photos (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lake Mead is a great place to bring your boat because there are a huge number places to visit and things to do.
		Lake Mead exists on the borders of 2 states which regulate the fishing on Lake Mead.
		Lake Mead NRA is home to Bighorn sheep, Mule deer, Coyotes, the Kit Fox, Bobcats, Ringtail cats, the Desert Tortoise, a large variety of birds and various reptiles such as Chuckwalla lizards, an occasional Gila Monster and several kinds of rattle snakes.
	www.sunsetcities.com.cob-web.org:8888 /lakemead.html (742 words)

	USGS Sediment Studies in Lake Mead Home Page
		Lake Mead is one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs at about 600 sq km, roughly the size of Chicago.
		Lake Mead started to form on the Colorado River in 1935, upon completion of the Hoover Dam.
		Understanding the geology of the lake floor is an important component of the overall study.
	woodshole.er.usgs.gov /project-pages/LakeMead/index.htm (210 words)

	NASA - Satellite Sees a Smaller Lake Mead
		It should come as no surprise that many Western movies portray the Lake Mead region as hot, dry, dusty and barren -- much of it is. However, the people and plants that do live there still need water, presenting a delivery problem to water officials in the area.
		Lake Mead reservoir is nestled between Arizona and Nevada and runs up to the Hoover Dam.
		Lake Mead is 110 miles (177.0 km) long and 8 miles (12.8 km) wide.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/earth/lookingatearth/lake_mead.html (498 words)

	NASA - Lake Mead Water Level Drops 2000-2004
		Perhaps the greatest symbol of water use in the west is the Hoover Dam and the massive reservoir it creates, Lake Mead.
		Shown in these Landsat composite images, Lake Mead is one of the largest reservoirs in the world and one of the most important water sources in the western United States.
		The impact of the drought is apparent in the dwindling size of Lake Mead.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/earth/lookingatearth/Lake_Mead2004.html (484 words)

	GORP - Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A study in opposites, the Lake Mead National Recreation Area combines the burnished bleakness of the southwestern desert's steep canyons with the cooling depths of freshwater lakes.
		The area encompasses the 110-mile Lake Mead, the 67-mile Lake Mohave, the hard-to-reach Shivwits Plateau (accessible only from the north via unpaved roads), and the surrounding desert.
		Lake Mead, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, was created in the 1930s when the Hoover Dam was constructed on the Colorado River.
	www.gorp.com /gorp/resource/US_NRA/az_lmead.htm (207 words)

	Lake Mead Marina
		Lake Mead Marina is located on Hwy 166, about 6 miles north of Boulder City.
		Yes, wind is quite common in this part of the lake, Boulder Basin.
		This is the only marina on Lake Mead that accommodates launching sailboats with a launch hoist at the ramp.
	www.riverlakes.com /lake_mead_marina.htm (407 words)

	Lake Mead National Recreation Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Mead National Recreation Area is located in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona.
		The centerpieces of the National Recreation Area are it's two large reservoirs: Lake Mead and Lake Mohave.
		The name was changed to Lake Mead National Recreation Area on August 11, 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Mead_National_Recreation_Area (265 words)

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