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PROJECTS: BOOM TOWN: Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam

"One could say that the age of great expectations was inaugurated at Hoover Dam- a fifty-year flowering of hopes when all things appeared possible.  And one could say that, amid the salt encrusted sands of the river's dried-up delta, we began to founder on the Era of Limits"-<i>Cadillac Desert</i>, Marc Reisner, 1986
Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam
"One could say that the age of great expectations was inaugurated at Hoover Dam- a fifty-year flowering of hopes when all things appeared possible. And one could say that, amid the salt encrusted sands of the river's dried-up delta, we began to founder on the Era of Limits"

-Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner, 1986