This relief sculpture of Dr. Elwood Mead is located on the Nevada side of Hoover Dam.
It depicts Mead as a middle aged man wearing a suit and eyeglasses with a serious look on his face.
Unfortunately there is no sign at the site indicating the artist or date.
The plaque with the relief adds:
"DE. ELWOOD MEAD
COMMISSION, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 1924-1936
WHOSE LIFETIME WORK CULMINATED IN
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOULDER CANYON
PROJECT CREATING LAKE MEAD, NAMED
IN HIS HONOR."
Below that, another plaque reads:
"Dr. Elwood Mead
Namesake of Lake Mead
Born in 1858, Dr. Elwood Mead became a world-renowned water and irrigation engineer. He wrote Wyoming's first water code, the basis for codes throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. He wrote the Carey Act, led water conservation and irrigation efforts in Victoria, Australia, and Palestine, created the Rural Institutions Program for the University of California, and led the first federal irrigation studies. He was the Bureau of Reclamation's first commissioner, serving from 1924 until his death in 1936. His last great project was Hoover Dam.
Placed this 3rd day of November, 2007
By the Queho Posse Chapter #1919 of the Ancient and
Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus
And
the Bureau of Reclamation."
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