10/17/2026
The Bureau of Reclamation tore up Oskar JW Hansen’s visionary masterpiece to repair the tile in January, 2020. It’s dedicated to the lives lost building Hoover Dam. The tile was in need of repair but the repair is worse. Honestly, they neglected it for years. It was barely scrubbed, cleaned, or cared for. They hired a company that utterly failed to lay a proper mortar bed. They clearly did not lay specs for the mortar bed. There are signs of excessive water in the mortar and calcium rich fines. This is our tax money wastefully at work, millions lost, and Hansen’s art ruined.
