Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-06-17 | Page 8 | Lake Mead Now Two-Thirds Full

Lake Mead Now Two-Thirds Full Storage in Lake Mead, the great lake created in the southwestern desert by Boulder dam, today reached reach-ed 20,0X),000 acre-feet, and the lake is now two-thirds full. Where three years ago, only the sullen Colorado river flowed through its precipitous canyons over a series of rapids, Lake Mead now stretches up.stream from the dam 112.3 miles, with a maximum depth of its waters of 505.90 feet. A total of 6,517,011,000,000 gallons of water, which otherwise would have wasted into the sea, have been caught and stored in Lake Mead, thus regulating the river, and providing pro-viding a reliable water supply for Irrigators of 1,000,000 acres of land reclaimed from the deserts of Arizona Ari-zona and California; for domestic use by the cities served by the stream in those states; and to turn the great turbines in the powerhouse at the toe of the dam. The maximum water elevation is 60 feet below the Hps of the' spillways. spill-ways. However, 7,189,000 acre-feet of additional water will be required to cause the lake to spill. Where a few years ago only the most intrepid dared to penetrate, some of the most magnificent canyons can-yons of the Colorado river can now be entered safely by boat on the blue waters of Lake Mead. In May, more than 21,000 persons, out of 47,-000 47,-000 who visited Boulder dam, made short or long trips on Lake Mead and used the beach which it has created in the old Hemenway Wash, which, a few years ago, was a blistering blis-tering stretch of sand. o