![]() ![]() A pronounced ring has wrapped around Lake Mead, showing clearly where the previous water break reached and far above where the current water levels sit. Last year around the same time, it was 1,079 feet and in 2020 it was 1,096 feet. Water levels at Lake Mead for the month of April were at 1,054 feet above sea level, according to the U.S. “Unfortunately, I think we’re gonna find a lot more horrifying things, including probably more bodies, but more concerning on some level, just that our human systems are not set up to deal with these kinds of water declines.” ![]() ![]() “We’re finding out horrifying things that we would have just as soon not found out,” Udall said. The skeletal remains emerging from the earth are a byproduct of a system in decline. That’s already playing out in many parts of the region where wet winters do not translate to wet summers as the soil does not retain the same amount of water from the previous year. Police said the remains are likely those of a gunshot victim.Ī better way to describe this current decline of water in Nevada, California and other states is the aridification of the American West, Udall said, in which the region will become drier and more arid over the long term. The discovery comes a week after boaters found buried in mud a barrel containing skeletal remains. What we’re seeing is anything but temporary,” Udall said.Ĭalifornia More human remains found in Lake Mead, which continues to recede amid drought “It’s time to stop calling this a drought, because that obfuscates what’s happening here. The word drought does not capture the severity of what’s happening across the region, said Brad Udall, water and climate scientist at Colorado State University. “It’s really a story that has captured people’s imagination about, you know, what else might be lurking in the depths of Lake Mead.”įor climate scientists, the writing is on the wall as dead bodies surface at one of the nation’s largest reservoirs that serves water to roughly 20 million people. “This is just as top of mind, for a lot of people here,” Schumacher said. But it’s just as likely that drowning victims and other remnants of the past will be revealed as the waters recede, Schumacher said. It’s not impossible to think there will be more mob victims at the bottom of the lake. Ray Spencer said of remains revealed by receding Lake Mead.īut mob hits in Las Vegas typically ended with desert burials, Schumacher said. ![]() ‘We believe this is a homicide as a result of a gunshot wound,’ Las Vegas Police Lt. The person in the barrel would have been shot right around the time when mob organization was dying out in Sin City.Ĭalifornia Skeleton in barrel revealed by receding waters of Lake Mead are of a gunshot victim, police say Ray Spencer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told The Times earlier this month that 40 years ago, the current shoreline would have been under 100 feet of water. Homicide investigators believe the victim was shot to death and placed in the barrel 40 to 45 years ago, based on the shoes found in the barrel. The barrel found at Lake Mead on May 1 portends a great calamity on the horizon for the climate, but also tells a story about Las Vegas. Authorities are not surprised that more bodies are seeing the light of day as Lake Mead writhes in a prolonged drought gripping the West. Less than a week after the unidentified body was found in a barrel, paddleboarders found another set of skeletal remains at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. The skeletal remains found in a barrel at Lake Mead earlier this month have captivated and horrified two distinct groups that typically do not have much in common: mob historians and climate scientists. ![]()
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