pizzano
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Post by pizzano on Oct 12, 2022 19:12:05 GMT -5
A buddy of mine was sniffing about at Lake Mead last week.....the + 1000' sea level water surface level has exposed some interests.....other than bones, vehicles and untold stories of murder and mayhem.........!
It's gov't land, so it won't be fill your pockets fun......to much attention on that part of the dessert for my taste right now..........but some stuff is cropping up, jasper type material along the west/northwest Muddy Mtns walls and ridges........we're seeing soil we haven't laid eyes since before the canyons and voids were filled (flooded) over 50yrs ago.........this is a vast National Parks territory, with multi agency overlaying rights and restrictions, what "public" recreation voids are slim & none........Got a few photos coming from the desert hounds.......I'll pass on after my look see........they don't say much often, but when they do, I listen.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 12, 2022 21:17:19 GMT -5
I'll be interested to see the pictures.
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Gem'n I
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Post by Gem'n I on Oct 12, 2022 21:41:34 GMT -5
Let er rip Pizzano
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hoolligan1938
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Post by hoolligan1938 on Oct 13, 2022 10:19:41 GMT -5
Pizzano - Very eager to see some photos of the lakes level now and the newly exposed material you mentioned. I hate to burden you with the photo task but, I live in the east and used to get to Vegas and lake Mead when I was younger and still working, and loved the scenery. Can't do that anymore so some photos of the area would be great. Maybe there are others like me who can't get out there anymore.
Jim
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Oct 15, 2022 19:45:20 GMT -5
I watched a video about the volcanic dust layers pizzano. Scientist were making some surprise findings with the ash layers. There has to be some fine rock hunting, got to be. Understood that it is govt property but can't wait to see what is there.
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pizzano
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Post by pizzano on Dec 16, 2022 11:37:43 GMT -5
Well, I've kind of been slacking lately, not much involved with rocks at the moment........but, the other day while flipping through the YouTube TV channels, I came across a CNN highlight related to this very topic.......and to add to my surprise, a few of the photos of the locations my buddies visited were shown on that special. They had visited a few of the same spots..........most of the shots they sent me were of the actual rocks and material they had gathered on that visit.......so rather than spend time sorting through some pretty poor quality pic's and post here (just lazy and bored)..........Here's a link to the article that CNN published.....: www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/12/us/lake-mead-drought-shoreline-discoveries-climate-ctpr/Hemenway Harbor and Boulder Beach were a couple of places my bud's visited......and collected some pretty nice material......mostly hand picked and pocket stuffed on the sly......collecting is a no no there...........lol
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Post by vegasjames on Dec 16, 2022 14:51:41 GMT -5
I thought this was a much older article when I read where they claimed the lake would have to drop another 100 feet before they can no longer produce power. They announced probably a year and a half ago that the lake only had to drop another 30 feet before they could no longer produce power on the dam. They have already cut way back on power production to protect the generators because the water is so low that it creates cavitations as it runs through the turbines damaging the generators if they try to run them at full generating power. So most the generators are not in use right now and they have slowed water flow through the fee operational ones. If the lake drops another 100 feet there will not be much of anything left. Most of Lake Mead is less than 100 feet deep right now. Even when full the lake was only 400 feet deep on average, with the deepest point near the mouth of the canyon by the dam around 600 feet. Lat I heard, the lake was already down over 300 feet. So again, another 100 foot drop would not leave much of anything left. This is why I do not like CNN, they seem to love to make crap up instead of reporting facts.
The lake has risen slightly recently with some large storms that came through, but that will not likely last long. They are still not controlling growth here, and all that new construction of more casinos and stadiums we do not need uses up all sorts of water.
The other big uses of water here are the man made lakes and massive casino fountains that lose all sort of water by evaporation, as well as the power plants here. I was driving down the 95 the other day and watching all the massive steam columns from mainly from the power generating stations. Really pisses me off because they are trying to force everyone to give up their lawns and trees, which will cause a spike in our summer cooling bills, but they are not making the casinos close their fountains, draining the man-made lakes along the multi=million dollar homes, and they wan to keep doing more unnecessary construction and to build more golf courses as if we have an unlimited water supply. Apparently it is unlimited to the rich, but not to the rest of us.
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