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What are the two towers on the Lake Mead side of the dam?

April 26, 2017Dam Lake mead towers

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What are the two towers on the Lake Mead side of the dam?

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The “intake towers,” one in Nevada, one in Arizona, contain complex hyrdro-powered timing mechanisms that keep the official time for their respective states. Due to turbine failure in the Arizona tower in 1986, that state did not celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day until 2000, when the replacement part finally arrived.