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Sebastian Rodriguez, 9, is sworn in as an official junior ranger at Lake Mead National Recreation Area after completing the day’s activities, learning about conservation and the local environment’s plant and wildlife, during Junior Ranger Day on Saturday, the first day of National Park Week.
By HALI BERNSTEIN SAYLOR
BOULDER CITY REVIEW
Clean, Green Boulder City is now a little less green, but according to officials from the Bureau of Reclamation, it’s for a good cause, saving more than two million gallons of water a year.
Mother Nature often needs a helping hand these days, and thanks to a cleanup this past Friday, that’s exactly what happened.
For those who have ever been to Hoover Dam, it’s almost guaranteed they have seen Oskar J.W. Hansen’s Winged Figures, which has stood for nearly nine decades.
For those who have driven past the Bureau of Reclamation building within the last week, you may have been wondering why it’s surrounded by a chain-link fence.
The rate paid by Boulder City for power purchased on the open market rose from 3.945 cents per kWh in 2018 to 23.859 cents per kWh in 2023, an eye-popping increase of 500% or six times the 2018 cost. But what exactly does “open market” mean?
The bill would give the Southern Nevada Water Authority the ability to cap residential water use during a federally declared water shortage.
The storms that swept across the Western U.S. this winter dropped so much water that less than one-quarter of the nation’s driest state remains in drought.
Forecasters expect the Colorado River to see some of its highest flows in more than a decade as snow melts off the Rockies this spring and summer.
The discussion also may clear the air in terms of the perception many have in regard to the city’s wastewater program.
“Disastrous conditions have reshaped Lake Mead National Recreation Area’s one and a half million acres of incredible landscapes and slowly depleted the largest reservoir in the United States,” the senators wrote in a letter to the National Park Service.
