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Masterfully Planned Community
A N I N S P I R E D M AST E R P I EC E
In September 1988, construction began on Lake Las Vegas Resort’s dam and a two-mile long bypass system. The bypass system is comprised of two pipes that are each 84 inches in diameter and two miles in length and was engineered to convey the flow of the Las Vegas Wash under Lake Las Vegas and into Lake Mead . The 18-story dam, that is approximately 150 feet high, contains nearly 4.1 million cubic yards of earth and took more than two years to build. Lake development was completed in 1994. Lake Las Vegas is a recreational amenity to Lake Las Vegas Resort, but it also provides approximately 10,000 acre-feet of water storage for the resort’s landscape and golf course irrigation requirements. The private SouthShore Golf Club opened in 1995, the first private Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course in Nevada . The first resort residents moved in the following year. With the opening of Reflection Bay Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, in 1998 and The Falls Golf Club, a Tom Weiskopf Design, in 2002, Lake Las Vegas Resort has been established as a premier golf destination winning numerous prestigious awards.
