A MAN-MADE LAKE
Water has been pouring into Lak« Mead, world's largest man-made lake, for about four years, but it is not full yet. The huge reservoir began •to form when Boulder Dam shut its main outlet gates on February 1,. 1935, and checked the Colorado River near Boulder City, Nevada. At present Lake Mead could flood the State of Connecticut 10 feet deep, reports the National Geographic Society. From the dam, backwater extends to the Grand Canyon, more than 100 miles " away. Never wider than eight miles, the lake is deeper than Lake Erie. When Lake Mead is full, it will hold twelve times as much water as the Aswan Reservoir on the Nile in Egypt, its nearest1 rival in size at present. The maximum depth at the dam will be 582 feet. The world's record dive in a diving suit would have to be bettered by some 82 feet in order for a diver to touch bottom there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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160A MAN-MADE LAKE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 7
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