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Hoover Dam explosion aftermath seen in tourist video. The aftermath of an explosion at the Hoover Dam is seen Tuesday, July 19, 2022, in video captured by Kristy Hairston and posted to social media.
A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site ...
The fire at the dam's A5 transformer started around 10 a.m. local time (1700 GMT) and was put out by the Reclamation/Hoover fire brigade within half an hour, the bureau said. "There are no ...
First called Boulder Dam, the big dam helped create energy, distribute water through the Southwest. Some want to get rid of ...
The Hoover Dam — about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas — is the most-visited dam worldwide, drawing about 7 million tourists annually, according to its National Park Service website.
California and six other states that use water from the Colorado River are nearing a 2026 deadline to come up with new rules for sharing shrinking supplies.
Before Lake Mead was a lake, it was simply a stretch of the Colorado River. Then the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation initiated the construction of the Hoover Dam, which was built between 1931 and 1935 ...
Hoover Dam is seen from the Arizona side on July 6, 2023, near Boulder City. (Chitose Suzuki/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chitosephoto. A January 1930 editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal ...
When the dam was officially dedicated on September 30, 1935, the colossal project on the Southern Nevada portion of the Colorado river had been called by several different names.
For his part, Hoover, in his memoirs, maintained that having the dam stripped of his name was unimportant. Twelve years later, Hoover was vindicated when House Resolution 140 was introduced and ...
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