Water Relief/MMC Performs a Raw Water Pumping Expansion

摘要

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is attempting to keep up with the Valley's growth with another expansion at Lake Mead. Southern Nevada attracts 8,000 new residents a month and is one of the country's fastest growing regions. North Las Vegas and Henderson were the nation's fastest and Henderson were the nation's second-and third-fastest growing cities from April 2000 to July 2002, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. All that growth means an added demand for water. To keep up , the Southern Nevada Water Authority is expanding system at Saddle Island, Lake Mead, which supplies 81 percent of the Las Vegas Valley with drinking water. Raw water is drawn from Lake Mead and the filtered and disinfected at either the 33-year-old Alfred Merritt Smith Water Treatment Plant or the 2-year-old River Mountains Water Treatment Facility. It's then pumped throughout Las Vegas via a 1OO-mi.-long pipeline network