LAS VEGAS (AP) — A body inside a barrel was found over the weekend on the the newly exposed bottom of Nevada’s Lake Mead as drought depletes one of the largest U.S. reservoirs — and officials predicted the discovery could be just the first of more grim finds.
Highlights
- A body inside a barrel was found over the the the newly exposed bottom of Nevada’s Lake Mead as drought depletes one of the largest U.S.
- reservoirs.
- “I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains,” Las Vegas police Lt.
- Ray Spencer told KLAS-TV.
- The reservoir on the Colorado River behind Hoover Dam has become so depleted that Las Vegas is now pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead, which also stretches into Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and across the southern border in Mexico.