FILE -A man walks by a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev., June 22, 2022. Divers have found another set of human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas. A Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area statement said Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 that a ɫtv Park Service dive team confirmed on Oct. 18 that a bone believed to be human had been found a day earlier at Callville Bay. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
FILE - A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area on June 26, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. Divers have found another set of human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas. A Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area statement said Thursday that a ɫtv Park Service dive team confirmed on Oct. 18 that a bone believed to be human had been found a day earlier at Callville Bay. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
FILE -A man walks by a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area near Boulder City, Nev., June 22, 2022. Divers have found another set of human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas. A Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area statement said Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 that a ɫtv Park Service dive team confirmed on Oct. 18 that a bone believed to be human had been found a day earlier at Callville Bay. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
FILE - A bathtub ring of light minerals shows the high water line of Lake Mead near water intakes on the Arizona side of Hoover Dam at the Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area on June 26, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. Divers have found another set of human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas. A Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area statement said Thursday that a ɫtv Park Service dive team confirmed on Oct. 18 that a bone believed to be human had been found a day earlier at Callville Bay. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Divers have found more human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Thursday.
A ɫtv Park Service dive team confirmed Oct. 18 that a bone found a day earlier at Callville Bay was part of “human skeletal remains” on the Nevada side of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam, according to a statement from the Lake Mead ɫtv Recreation Area.
"At this time, no foul play is suspected," the statement said, and the Clark County coroner’s office in Las Vegas was working to confirm the identity of the dead person.
The discovery marked at least the sixth time since early May that remains identified as human have been discovered in shallow water or on the dramatically receding shore of the lake. The water level has dropped more than 180 feet (55 meters) since the lake was full in 1983, putting it at less than 27% full today.
A man’s body found near Hemenway Harbor on May 1 has not been identified, but Las Vegas police said he had been shot, probably between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
Remains found May 7 at Callville Bay were as Thomas Erndt, a 42-year-old Las Vegas man believed to have drowned during a family boat outing in 2002. Callville Bay is one of several lake marina and resort areas.
Several more sets of partial human skeletal remains have been found since then — including on July 25, Aug. 6 and Aug. 16 — generally near a swimming area at the lake. They were not in barrels.
Seven states in the U.S. West and Mexico draw water from the Colorado River. Scientists attribute the drop in lake water levels to a warmer and drier climate affected by mainly due to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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