U. S. Senator Alan Bible presenting an American flag to a member of the Nellis Air Force Base color guard at the Southern Nevada Water Project groundbreaking ceremony located near Saddle Island on Lake Mead.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the first stage of the $81 million Southern Nevada Water Project, September 7, 1968. It was opened by Regional Director A.B. West of the Bureau of Reclamation's Region 3. U. S. Senator Alan Bible, far left, delivered the principal address and set off the explosion at the inlet portal of River Mountains Tunnel. Second from left is Asst. Commissioner of Reclamation N.B. Bennett, Jr., who emceed the program.