“I would say there is a very good chance that as the water level drops we will find extra human remains,” Las Vegas Police Lt. Ray Spencer told KLAS-TV on Monday. The lake level has dropped so much that the water intake in the drought-stricken Lake Mead became visible last week. The Colorado River Reservoir behind Hoover Dam is so depleted that Las Vegas is pumping water from deep into Lake Mid. Personal items found inside the barrel showed the man died more than 40 years ago in the 1980s, Spencer said. He declined to discuss the cause of death and declined to describe the items found, saying an investigation was ongoing. Police plan to contact experts at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas to analyze when the barrel began to erode. Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office will try to identify the individual. The boatmen located the barrel on Sunday afternoon. National Park Service rangers searched an area near Lake Hemenway Harbor and found the barrel containing skeletal remains. Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream are the largest man-made reservoirs in the United States, part of a system that supplies water to more than 40 million people, tribes, agriculture, and industry in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. across the southern border in Mexico.
