New Mexico: Elephant Butte Dam and Spillway - U.S. National Park Service
Reclamation favored a dam at New Mexico’s Elephant Butte, where Rio Grande water could be stored for use in the region’s Rincon, Mesilla, and El Paso valleys. However, the International Dam Commission, an assembly of Mexican and American engineers, wanted the dam to straddle the U.S.-Mexican border and for Mexico to own half of the dam ...
Elephant Butte Dam - Wikipedia
Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, [2] is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in the United States. The dam impounds Elephant Butte Reservoir, which is used mainly for agriculture but also provides for recreation, hydroelectricity, and flood and sediment control. The ...
Elephant Butte Dam - Bureau of Reclamation
Elephant Butte Dam and Reservoir (originally called Engle Dam) is on the Rio Grande, 125 miles north of El Paso, Texas, can store 2,210,298 acre-feet of water to provide irrigation and year-round power generation. This is a concrete gravity dam 301 feet high and 1,674 feet long including the spillway. It contains 618,785 cubic yards of concrete.
Geologic Tour - Elephant Butte Lake - New Mexico Bureau of …
Elephant Butte Reservoir is on the Rio Grande in south-central New Mexico east of Interstate 25 between Socorro and Las Cruces (Figure 1). Camping, picnicking, and boating facilities are available at this state park. Elephant Butte Lake State Park is the largest and most popular state park in New Mexico. Figure 1.
New Mexico: Elephant Butte Powerplant - U.S. National Park Service
Since their completion in 1916, the Elephant Butte Dam and Reservoir on the Rio Grande, 125 miles north of El Paso, Texas, has supplied the arid river valley with reliable irrigation water.
Elephant Butte Reservoir - Wikipedia
Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences. The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in …
Cultural and Paleontological Resources - Bureau of Reclamation
The Elephant Butte Irrigation District includes 217 contributing features spread over a vast discontinuous area. The features are all associated with the Bureau of Reclamation's Rio Grande Project located along the Rio Grande River of south-central New Mexico and westernmost Texas.
Rio Grande River Below Elephant Butte Dam, NM
This is a webcam image of the Rio Grande near Elephant Butte Dam, NM - site #08361000
Rio Grande and Elephant Butte - El Paso Water
Rio Grande and Elephant Butte El Paso receives nearly half its annual water supply from the Rio Grande. River flows that arrive in El Paso primarily originate from snowmelt runoff in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
"Making the Desert Bloom": The Rio Grande Project (Teaching with ...
In this lesson, students have learned about how the Bureau of Reclamation transformed the valley of the Rio Grande by creating Elephant Butte Dam and the Rio Grande irrigation project, and about some of the problems they encountered along the way.