Las Vegas Drilled A New Straw Under Lake Mead #engineering #lasvegas
“Las Vegas drinks Lake Mead through pipes cut into rock. The problem with a pipe cut into rock is that its height never changes. Two intakes were built for a lake that behaved. For most of fifty years Lake Mead sat between 1,180 and 1,220 feet above sea level. Intake No. 1 stops working when…