Water in the West- Hoover Dam

We drove by the Hoover Dam on June 19. I only saw the dam from the road, but we stopped by and took pictures at Lake Mead.  Lake Mead is the largest man-made resevoir in the United States. It can hold about 28.5 million acre feet of water.

Lake Mead.

Aerial view of Lake Mead and Hoover Dam.

The Hoover Dam was built between 1931 and 1935 during the Great Depression. Thousands of workers' hard work was put into the dam and many workers died as well (no bodies as we know of buried within dam). The dam is controversially named after Presidnet Herbert Hoover.

The inner workings of the dam.

Tha dam is located on the border between Nevada and Arizona (gives power to NV, AZ, and CA). It has a maximum production of 2,080 megawatts of electricity with its 17 generators.

The massive Hoover Dam.