Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Water released from Caballo Reservoir mixes with ground water that has reached the surface in the Rio Grande during the first release of water from Elephant Butte Dam for the 2024 cycle on March 8 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The Elephant Butte Dam (also referred to as Elephant Butte Dike) is the main storage facility for the Rio Grande Project. It is a 1,674 ft (510 m) long concrete gravity dam standing 193 ft (59 m) above the river and 301 ft (92 m) high from its foundations.
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.
Aside from its rivers, New Mexico has few sizeable natural bodies of water; there are several artificial lakes and reservoirs, the largest being Elephant Butte Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Rio Grande. At its height in the early 20th century, the reservoir was the largest man-made lake in the world.