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Water element of the Las Vegas 2020 master plan
Development in the city of Las Vegas is guided by the goals, objectives and policies outlined in the 2020 Master Plan, and elements of the Plan such as the Public Safety Element, which contain goals and policies designed to protect and enhance... 2005-01-01
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Durango Hills Water Resource Center
2001-01-01
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Source Water Assessment Plan
The safe drinking water amendments of 1996 placed a strong emphasis on the goal to establish a nationwide effort to protect drinking water sources. As part of that goal, the legislation provided for a preliminary assessment of drinking water... 1999-02-01
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Preliminary report: Monolayer behavior studies, 1959
During the fall of 1959, monolayer behavior studies were made on two lakes in the southwest; Boulder Basin of Lake Mead, Nevada, and Lake Sahuaro near Phoenix, Arizona. These studies were made to evaluate the effect of geographical and... 1960-01-19
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Benthic diatom community dynamics in the Colorado River: Interactive effects of...
The response to periodic desiccation of periphyton communities developed in eddy environments or in areas exposed to variable, direct current was examined. Algal communities were incubated on clay tiles for between 2 and 12 weeks in the Colorado... 1984-12-01
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Arizona source water assessment plan final draft
The safe drinking water amendments of 1996 placed a strong emphasis on the goal to establish a nationwide effort to protect drinking water sources. As part of that goal, the legislation provided for a preliminary assessment of drinking water... 1999-02-01
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Lake Mead and Lake Powell salinity reports
The enclosed reports were compiled for the Colorado River Water Quality Office based on salinity data for Lake Mead and Lake Powell. According to the regional director of the office, the reports are not considered "polished" documents for public... 1979-02-01
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Southern Nevada effluent wetlands: A Proposed cooperative venture between the Bureau of...
Throughout North America there is a growing interest in constructed wetlands, both as relatively inexpensive, low-maintenance systems for removing nutrients from wastewater, and as a means of using municipal wastewater to enhance wildlife habitat... 1992-11-01
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Water chemistry survey of Boulder Basin, Lake Mead
The survey results indicate that the impoundment of water behind Hoover Dam has not adversely affected the dissolved oxygen (DO) content and that water quality and DO content were uniform regardless of depth. The study made in April-May 1964 will... 1965-06-01
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Micronutrients and biological patterns in Lake Mead
Progressive increases in concentration of dissolved solids in the Colorado River water from Lake Powell to Imperial Dam seem to alter plankton dynamics and biological productivity of the river. Also, changes in biological productivity and... 1971-01-01
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Calculated current velocity data
Data collected at various stations around the Lake Mead vicinity. Air temperature, lake elevation, weather, and wind velocity is recorded, as well as the depth, magnitude, resolved angle, and bearing of the water currents. 1987-07-01
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Baseline water quality data inventory and analysis: Lake Mead National Recreation Area,...
This document presents the results of surface-water-quality data retrievals for Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LAME) from five of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) national databases: (1) Storage and Retrieval (STORET)... 1994-12-01
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Baseline water quality data inventory and analysis: Lake Mead National Recreation Area,...
This document presents the results of surface-water-quality data retrievals for Lake Mead National Recreation Area (LAME) from five of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) national databases: (1) Storage and Retrieval (STORET)... 1994-12-01
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Report on wastewater disposal to Board of County Commissioners, Clark County Nevada
This report is concerned with the management of waste-waters and subsurface drainage from the City of Las Vegas and its environs and the BMI complex, all in Clark County, Nevada. The prime objective is to recommend a plan of action which will... 1976-10-23
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A Review of the limnology of and water quality standards for Lake Mead
1. The waters of Las Vegas Bay, a heavily utilized recreational resource, receive discharges from a variety of municipal and industrial waste sources. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined, on the basis of numerous studies, that... 1976-10-28
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Characterization of the aquatic environment in Lake Mead near the proposed Spring...
A pumped storage system consists of an upper reservoir and lower reservoir separated by an elevation difference. During low demand energy periods such as nights and weekends water is pumped from the lower to the upper reservoir using available... 1988-06-01
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The Effect of Las Vegas Wash effluent upon the water quality in Lake Mead
This study developed from observations made during an earlier study on Lake Mead which was reported in CHE-70, Water Quality Study of Lake Mead. Results from that study indicated that poor-quality water was flowing into the Las Vegas Bay reach of... 1971-01-01
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The Migration of arsenic and lead in surface sediments at Three Kids Mine Henderson,...
This study focused on the distribution of arsenic and lead in surface sediments at Three Kids Mine in Henderson, Nevada. The mine site encompasses approximately 470 acres of desert and is situated above two developing communities (Lake Las Vegas... 1997-12-01
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Biological studies of selected reaches and tributaries of the Colorado River
This report fulfills the request of the Colorado River Basin Project, Denver, Colorado, to determine the effects of municipal and industrial wastes on the aquatic life in selected waters of the Colorado River Basin. These studies were conducted... 1968-10-01
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Development, verification, and use of methods to model chemical and thermal processes...
PURPOSE The purpose of the proposed research is to quantify the effects that Lakes Mead and Powell have on the salinity in the Colorado River system, and to evaluate changes that cap be made to the operating system of the reservoirs (within... 1966-07-01
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Las Vegas Wash multispectral scanner survey
At the request of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, Nevada, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory at Las Vegas collected multispectral scanner imagery of Las Vegas Wash on October 1,... 1984-02-01
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Report on water pollution problems in Las Vegas Wash and Las Vegas Bay
This report was prepared by the Federal Water- Quality Administration, Pacific Southwest Region, now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region IX, at the request of the State of Nevada, Department of Health, Welfare, and rehabilitation. In... 1971-11-01
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Total maximum daily loads and waste load allocations for Las Vegas Bay: Rationale and...
In September 1987 the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection revised Water Quality Standards for Las Vegas Wash (LVW) and Lake Mead. Standards were set for chlorophyll-a and unionized ammonia in Las Vegas Bay (LVB) (NDEP 1987). The 1986 and... 1989-05-01
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Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead proposed water quality standards: Revisions and rationale
Rationale of review and for proposed changes to the Nevada Pollution Control Regulations (NAC 445.1354, 445.1355, 445.1356, 455.1367, 445.1352, 445.1353, 445.1350, 445.1351) before the State Environmental Commission on June 23 and 24, 1987. 1987-05-01
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An Ecological analysis of relic diatoms in sediments of Las Vegas Bay, Lake Mead
Relic diatoms in sediments of the inner Las Vegas Bay, near the Las Vegas Wash sewage inflow, were examined in order to assess historic trophic conditions in this area of Lake Mead. Diatom sedimentation rates and ratios of Araphidineae/Centrales... 1982-07-01
