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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 New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Elephant Butte State Park is a New Mexico gem. On holiday weekends like Memorial Day, visitors have historically reached 100,000 on each day. Elephant Butte Lake visitor guide: when to visit ...
Late runoff and high snowpack last year means water from Elephant Butte is being released early this year, setting the stage for a full 30-week irrigation season.
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume
Jun. 20—ELEPHANT BUTTE — Neal Brown dismantled, relocated and reassembled one of his marinas at Elephant Butte Lake State Park last week. Dropping reservoir levels prompted the rare, labor ...
As of January 2021, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (Ebid) expected that water shortages would mean the river only flows through Las Cruces from June through July. [33] The water shortages are affecting the local ecosystem and endangering species including cottonwood trees and the southwestern willow flycatcher. [33]
A legal battle over the water and where the dam should be built delayed its construction. [2] The dam would get a few more names before the elephant took up permanent residence. [2] In the late 1800s, local newspapers were already referring to the area where the dam would eventually be built as Elephant Butte. [2]
Each spring, water managers release water from the Elephant Butte Reservoir 130 miles north of El Paso, and the water crawls into the wide, dry bed of the Rio Grande in New Mexico.