{"id":40865,"date":"2022-05-02T17:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T23:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/barrel-containing-human-remains-discovered-in-lake-mead\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:57:54","slug":"barrel-containing-human-remains-discovered-in-lake-mead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/barrel-containing-human-remains-discovered-in-lake-mead\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrel containing human remains discovered in Lake Mead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=249b87b9-5f9d-4608-b897-3f66387e8b06&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" alt=\"Water intake pipes, once underwater, sit above the water line along Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The drought-starved reservoir has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Water intake pipes, once underwater, sit above the water line along Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The drought-starved reservoir has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in Lake Mead.<\/p>\n<p>Boaters spotted the barrel Sunday afternoon and the National Park Service was alerted.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said in a statement rangers searched an area near Hemenway Harbor and found the barrel with skeletal remains. They are working with Las Vegas police.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark County coroner\u2019s office will determine the person&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Shawna Hollister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/i-team-sources-body-found-at-lake-mead-outside-las-vegas\/\" id=\"link-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told KLAS-TV<\/a> in Las Vegas that she and her husband were docking their boat when they heard a woman scream. They then saw the body, which also had a shirt and belt visible.<\/p>\n<p>The barrel might have been visible due to Lake Mead&#8217;s low water level from ongoing drought.<\/p>\n<p>A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead where other states downstream don\u2019t have access.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream are the largest human-made reservoirs in the U.S., part of a system that provides water to more than 40 million people, tribes, agriculture and industry in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and across the southern border in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>intake pipes, once underwater, sit above the water line along Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The drought-starved reservoir has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead.The Associated Press LAS VEGAS \u2013 Authorities say a barrel carrying human remains has been discovered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[294],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-water-supply"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84785,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40865\/revisions\/84785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40865"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}