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Lake Mead

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Noun1.Lake MeadLake Mead - the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area
Arizona, Grand Canyon State, AZ - a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon
Battle Born State, Nevada, NV, Sagebrush State, Silver State - a state in the southwestern United States

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Author and powerboat expert Chuck Luttrell (a Search and Rescue Specialist and a Department of the Interior certified instructor in motorboat operation with more than fourteen years of professional boating experience that included being a boat patrol ranger in Kentucky, Texas, and Lake Mead, Nevada) shows how to deal with flooding, capsizing and sinking; people overboard; engine failure and grounding; navigational loss of position; other boaters in need of rescue; and much more.
Lake Las Vegas was created in the early 1990s when water was diverted from adjacent Lake Mead to an area of starkly beautiful desert mountains (the engineering challenges included two 7-foot-diameter drain pipes that run under the lake to carry away Las Vegas' storm runoff).
Lake Mead Boat Owners Association of Henderson, NV, to print 20,000 color flyers to help boaters identify and prevent the spread of zebra mussels.
 
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