Can't read the story, will have to find it elsewhere than the LoserAss Times...

Here U go...

Fifth set of human remains found at diminishing Lake Mead

Three dead fish stand propped up in the cracks of dried mud in a lake bed as the sun shines
Dead fish that someone propped between the cracks of dried mud are seen in June at Lake Mead, where water levels have fallen to historic lows.(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
BY NATHAN SOLISSTAFF WRITER
AUG. 17, 2022 5:40 PM PT
For the fifth time since May, human remains were discovered at Lake Mead as water levels have fallen to historic lows at the country’s largest artificial reservoir.

Details are scant, but rangers with the National Park Service reported the skeletal remains were found around 8 p.m. Monday at the lake’s Swim Beach. The area was closed off, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team responded to assist with securing the remains.

On May 1, boaters docking at Hemenway Harbor on the lake’s south end found a corroded barrel sticking out of the mud in the lake bed. Skeletal remains inside the barrel were determined to be from a person who was shot and thrown into the lake sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s based on the clothing and shoes, Las Vegas police said.

Less than a week after the barrel was discovered, sisters Lynette and Lindsey Melvin found another set of remains in a sand bar while paddle boarding near Callville Bay in the west end of Lake Mead.

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Remains were found on July 25 and again on Aug. 6 at Swim Beach, the area where this week’s discovery was made. It was not clear whether the three sets of remains found at Swim Beach came from separate bodies.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. Ray Spencer said it did not surprise him that bodies were being discovered as Lake Mead recedes and expected more to be found when the first skeletal remains were found in May.

Water levels on Lake Mead have dropped to lows not seen since the 1930s. A bathtub-like ring encircles the water, showing where the lake once reached.

Though the reservoir got a slight boost thanks to monsoon rains and flash floods this month, it has not been nearly enough to make up for the drought. On Wednesday, water levels were at 1,042 feet, compared with 1,067 feet this time last year and 1,084 feet in 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

NASA satellite imagery shows a dramatic change over the last 20 years at the body of water, which has dropped to just over a quarter of its capacity

Just my $0.02...

"Okay here's the plan we bump off the casino owner's kid if he doesn't pay the ransom and then dump him into Lake Mead where no one will ever find him. They're never going to drain the lake to search for bodies" Oops that plan isn't panning out.

Maybe they'll finally find Hoffa.

They was swimming wit the fishes!

There have been so many "missing" people reported from Las Vegas , especially in the mid to late 1960s, that I'm sure there are many more corpse to be found

They got a ride to the lake in the trunk of a 67 Grand Prix from a couple of good fellas!

It is so distressing to see “pride in professional behavior”
going away with each year.

A pro would slip the body into a 20” pipe
then aim a “rosebud tip” of an oxy-acetylene torch with the mixture on the “oxidizing” side
to turn the body into ashes.

Collect the Gold from any teeth filings
then sprinkle the ashes on the lake (or ocean)

So few “workmen” have high standards anymore.

It makes you wonder if they are slipping some food additive in what males eat these days.

90% are in holes in the desert.

Many, many in shallow holes

and they were drinking that water. If you go back to YouTube, the barrel was found by a guy showing how low the water level was. He points out the barrel and comments how unusual to find something like that.

Drinking water? How many trillion fish crapped in the pond?

And people peeing in it or other things...

Maybe some raw fuel from boats is a better option.

Stop using common sense.

The Chicago River says "hold my beer"...and the Hudson River's thinking "I ain't sayin' nothin' "

It’s an interesting time…..

Been thinking, how did it fill up the first time? Are they letting more water thru the dam now?

more on subject

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/l...tal-secrets-as-waters-recede/ar-AA10T1Jm

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Jeff Burbank is a former reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In 1994, he researched for the newspaper how many people have gone missing at the recreation area. He found that since the National Park Service began keeping records in 1937 until 1994, some 59 people were listed as missing or presumed drowned at the recreation area.

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It is stopping water and storing it from upriver, it has been doing that since they close the bypass around the dam when it was under construction in the late or mid 1930s.
That water use to flow unrestricted into the gulf of Baja CA, Mexico use to use some of that water to grow crops, the U.S. stop that flow a long time ago by storing and using all that water here in the U.S.
The annual snowpack and rainwater from upriver has slowed way down from years ago, hence less water in all of those reservoirs: whiney: Hopefully that will change soon: luck: