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  1. Lake Meadnoun

    the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area

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  1. lake mead

    Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, located on the Colorado River, about 24 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. It was created in the 1930s by the construction of Hoover Dam. Lake Mead offers various recreational activities such as fishing, boating and swimming. It stretches across Nevada and Arizona and serves as a primary water source for both states.

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  1. Lake Mead

    Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States in maximum water capacity. It is located on the Colorado River about 24 mi from the Strip southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona. Formed by the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead is 112 miles long when the lake is full, has 550 miles of shoreline, is around 500 feet at greatest depth, has 247 square miles of surface, and when filled to capacity, 28 million acre-feet of water. However, the lake has not reached this capacity in since 1983 due to increasing droughts.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lake mead in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lake mead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of lake mead in a Sentence

  1. Colby Pellegrino:

    But( the pumping station) coming online is also a symbol of how serious the situation is on Colorado River right now, reservoir levels are lower than they've ever been in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead since the time that they filled.

  2. John Jontry:

    As Lake Mead drops, we will continue to see( power) generation decline gradually.

  3. Brenda Burman:

    What we expect that means is that Lake Powell and Lake Mead will balance, that helps with what type of shortage we might have next year, that helps as far as where we think the reservoirs might be in two to three years, so it’s very good news.

  4. Kristen Averyst:

    When both Lake Mead and Lake Powell were filled, Lake Mead was about making sure that there was water for the Western US, but Lake Mead was also about ensuring that there was power available to the West, and so what the federal government is up against right now is ensuring that we continue to have water where we need it to go, but also that we're able to have enough water in each of the reservoirs to generate power.

  5. Chelsea Peters:

    Several years of below-normal snowpack across the Intermountain West mountains that supply the Colorado River Basin will continue to increase the water supply stress, which was already in jeopardy due to population increase, we recently saw this impact reservoir storage and lake levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Within the last year, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead have observed their lowest reservoir storage levels in 30 years.

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