PROJECT PROFILE WJE www.wje.com Lake Las Vegas Dam Geotechnical Consulting | Henderson, NV CLIENT Transcontinental Properties BACKGROUND Lake Las Vegas Dam is 192 feet high (58.5 meters), 4,200 feet long (1.28 kilometers), rolled-earth embankment dam, impounding a reservoir of 10,000 acre-feet (12.3 hm3). The reservoir is the focal point of the $2.5 billion Lake Las Vegas Resort development. SOLUTION The project included construction of three spillways, outlet works, control structure, a roadway bridge, and a bypass system. The bypass system consists of two side-by-side, 84-inch-diameter concrete pipes designed to pass flows in Las Vegas Wash beneath the reservoi

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