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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam and was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume when full. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.[1]

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Hoover Dam is featured in the documentary.

In 1 day after people, as generating plants fails and outages contribute to cascade of failure worldwide, the last artificial lights on Earth is seen in the American Southwest where the Hoover Dam hydropower plant takes little notice of human disappearance due to its source of fuel is virtually limitless.

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Bill Bruninga explaining the function of the Hoover Dam.

Bill Bruninga explains that the source of fuel is water in the reservoir Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam, which supplies the water to the hydro turbine generators. He continues that the generators are operating automatically and continue as long as all of the systems are functioning normally, even without people, and it would be true after a week, several weeks, several months, and couple of years and he concludes that the Hoover Dam would be the last power plants still running.

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Inside Hoover Dam.

The first event of the Hoover Dam is in one year after people when its' power plant is about to be brought down by quagga mussel, an organism the size of a human thumbnail and an invasive species from Eastern Europe that infested Lake Mead where humans tasked to scrap it from the grates and pipes it colonizes in the time of humans. Bill Bruninga stated that the mussels attach themselves to the inside wall of pipes and can produce as much as they rapidly build up & grow on top of each other till it completely block the diameter of a pipe. Without people to remove the quagga mussels, it spread into the small pipes that bring cooling water to the generators of Hoover Dam. Boll Bruninga explains that once the mussels clog up the cooling water pipes, the generators wouldn't cool anymore causing the high temperature alarm in the automatic control system which then starts to shutdown sequence of the generators till all of the generators of Hoover Dam fails and the power plant shut down.

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Lake Mead starts to rise.

The shutdown of Hoover Dam cause the city of Las Vegas, the last glimmers of manmade light on Earth, to turn dark. Without the generators, water is no longer pass through Hoover Dam causing Colorado River downstream to run dry while on the other side of the dam, Lake Mead starts to rise. Bill Bruninga stated that Lake Mead would keep building up to the point it will spill over through the spillways.

It was examined in 40 years after people when the largest concrete structures like Hoover Dam would last even longer than 500 to 1,000 years because of the dam is thick enough that the concrete deep inside still curing after 70 years since its construction. However, other dams made of earth, would leak and erode.

Its fate is revealed in 10,000 years after people when Hoover Dam is one of the last man-made structures still standing. But 10,000 years after people and weakened from a series of rain, sandstorms, and earthquakes analyzed by David Brin, an earthquake have cause the Hoover Dam to collapse, making it the last of the great collapses in Earth.

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    Compare the scene of this spill with others.

    Visual mistakes can be seen in the segment of 10,000 years after people. The most visible mistake is seen on the right edge of the Hoover Dam where it shown to spill but in a later frame, the right side of the dam collapsed or worn during the earthquake, but without the edge being worn by water cascade seen in the previous frame. A section of the [left] facade has also appeared to slump down between earthquake/collapse sequence frames.

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