First Set of Recent Lake Mead Remains Identified
The first off band of human remains late recovered from Lake Margaret Mead was identified Wed evening. The Joe Clark County Coroner said they belong to St. Thomas Erndt of Las Vegas, who was 42 at the clip of his reported drowning on Aug. 2, 2002. Erndt’s remains were discovered at Lake Margaret Mead on May 7, 2002 in the Callville Bay area.
Though his death was reported as a drowning, William Clark County officials also said that Erndt’s exact make of demise has not been determined.
The appendage for identifying remains discovered at Lake Margaret Mead includes taking DNA samples, which canful live affected by clip and environmental conditions, and comparing findings to information regarding people who hold been reported missing over the years, according to a mechanical press tone ending from the county.
Other Remains Still Being Investigated
Due to threesome years of vivid drought and II decades of long-term drought, parts of Lake George Herbert Mead that were once underwater are now open and telltale(a) long-submerged secrets. The Mark Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner continues to enquire the identicalness of quadruplet other sets of human remains found at Lake George Herbert Mead since this spring.
- On Aug. 16, partial skeletal remains were discovered inwards the Boulder Beach area. The remains were found past a commons visitor inward the water.
- On Aug. 6, partial skeletal remains were discovered near the shoreline of the Boulder Beach area.
- On July 25, partial skeletal remains were also discovered near the shoreline of the Boulder Beach area. Investigators are allay trying to ascertain whether the this mark of remains, and the Aug. 6 set, are from the same person.
- On May 1, human remains were discovered in a gun barrel at Hemenway Harbor. They belong to a manly who died from a gunshot combat injury to the head. This is the only if instance of remains from Lake George Herbert Mead beingness investigated by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as a homicide.
Drought May Reveal Sir Thomas More Secrets
Lake Mead is at present at 28% of full capacity. This is its lowest level since it was number 1 filled past the culmination of the John Edgar Hoover Dam in 1935. Two decades of slowed snowfall runoff into the CO River has been cited as a major contributory factor.
Lake Mead is the largest US reservoir. It provides water to nearly 20 jillion people inward California, Nevada, Arizona, and some of Mexico. The lake was lowest considered replete(p) inward 2000, when its water level off was 1,214 feet. It has fallen 174 feet since then, leaving an eery whitened bathing tub peal of calcium and other minerals formerly dissolved inward the water on its walls.
“As irrigate levels recede and fluctuate, it is possible that artifacts that we get along and don’t know about may emerge; including human remains from previous missing soul reports,” the parkland religious service wrote inwards a statement.