Authorities say a barrel carrying human stays has been found in Lake Mead.
Boaters noticed the barrel Sunday afternoon and the Nationwide Park Service was alerted.
The company mentioned in an announcement rangers searched an space close to Hemenway Harbor and located the barrel with skeletal stays. They're working with Las Vegas police.
The Clark County coroner's workplace will decide the individual's id.
Shawna Hollister instructed KLAS-TV in Las Vegas that she and her husband had been docking their boat once they heard a girl scream. They then noticed the physique, which additionally had a shirt and belt seen.
The barrel may need been seen as a result of Lake Mead's low water stage from ongoing drought.
An enormous drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has turn out to be so depleted that Las Vegas now's pumping water from deeper inside Lake Mead the place different states downstream do not have entry.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell upstream are the most important human-made reservoirs within the U.S., a part of a system that gives water to greater than 40 million individuals, tribes, agriculture and trade in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and throughout the southern border in Mexico.