[DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam - Wikipedia [PAR] Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. [DOC] [TLE] Lake Mead - Wikipedia [PAR] Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, measured by water 
capacity. It is on the Colorado River about 24 mi (39 km) from the Las Vegas Strip 
southeast of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the states of Nevada and Arizona. 
Formed by the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead is 112 miles (180 km) long when the .... 
The 3-mile tunnel took seven years to build under the lake and was put into... [DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Built during the Great Depression, Hoover Dam was a marvel of engineering and 
... for a massive dam on the Arizona-Nevada border to tame the Colorado River ... 
this National Historic Landmark stores enough water in Lake Mead to irrigate 2... [DOC] [TLE] 7 Things You Might Not Know About the Hoover Dam - History Lists [PAR] Sep 14, 2015 ... Did you know that the Hoover Dam supplies electricity to more than 20 million 
people? ... In the early 1930s, Boulder City, Nevada, was constructed to house ... 
Formed by the damning of the Colorado River, Lake Mead, the... [DOC] [TLE] "The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam--Reading 1 [PAR] Before the building of Hoover Dam, the Colorado River was dangerous and 
unreliable. Melting snow in ... The lake it created would be the largest in the world
. [DOC] [TLE] Why the Hoover Dam was built - Hoover Dam Tour Company [PAR] Why the Hoover Dam was built. ... Home  Hoover Dam & Lake Mead ... Hoover 
Dam on the Colorado River side ... and the battle over water made it obvious to 
the United States government that the Colorado River was part of the solution. [DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] The reservoir that formed behind the dam is Lake Mead, one of the world's ... 
tunnels where in place, cofferdams were built to divert the Colorado River. ... 
Because of Hoover Dam, the Colorado River was controlled for the first time in 
history. [DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam | The Dam That Created Lake Mead - Arizona [PAR] It still stands tall as an engineering marvel high above the Colorado River 
between ... A scenic by-product of Hoover Dam is the gigantic reservoir of Lake 
Mead, ... there is enough concrete (4.5 million cubic yards) in Hoover Dam to 
build a... [DOC] [TLE] Bureau of Reclamation: Lower Colorado Region - Hoover Dam and ... [PAR] For millions of years, as the Colorado River followed its 1400-mile course ... use 
of the lakes and controlled flows created by Hoover and other dams on the ... 
Several wildlife refuges and backwaters have been constructed along the lower 
river... [DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam - building, river, largest, source - Water Encyclopedia [PAR] The reservoir that formed behind the dam is Lake Mead, one of the world's ... first 
two tunnels where in place, cofferdams were built to divert the Colorado River. [DOC] [TLE] NCHGC: Sites and Stories: Colorado River Corridor: Black Bridge [PAR] To overcome this limitation Americans built dams on rivers to store water and 
then ... In 1902 Congress created the United States Bureau of Reclamation 
charged ... Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam) was the first big dam built on 
the Colorado. ... to Glen Canyon Dam and are now inundated by the water of 
Lake Powell. [DOC] [TLE] Hoover Dam - Lake Mead - Hoover Dam Bridge - Boulder Dam ... [PAR] With the official opening of the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge (Mike ... Hoover Dam 
was without precedent; it was the greatest dam constructed in its day. ... Colorado 
River water stored behind Hoover Dam irrigates some of America's ... 
Hydroelectric power is created as water rushes

Question: This lake was created when Hoover Dam was built on the Colorado River
Answer: Lake Mead