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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 Rio Grande is visible at left as the Elephant Butte Dam holds back water on June 18, 2023. Editor's note: Reporting supported with a grant from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado ...
The Elephant Butte Irrigation District is a 6,870 acres (27.8 km 2) historic district in New Mexico and Texas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The listing included three contributing buildings and 214 contributing structures , in Doña Ana County, New Mexico , Sierra County, New Mexico and El Paso County ...
The Elephant Butte Irrigation District is a 6,870 acres (27.8 km 2) historic district providing recognition and limited protection for the history of much of the system, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The Middle Rio Grande Project includes the river, dams, irrigation and drainage channels from Velarde south to the point where the river enters the Elephant Butte Reservoir. It also includes maintenance of the river near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The irrigation facilities, originally built by the conservancy district, irrigate up to ...
When water releases begin from Elephant Butte on June 1, farmers in Southern New Mexico and El Paso will have to make due with a reduced allotment. Irrigation districts plan for another dry year ...
The Rio Grande Project built the Elephant Butte Dam and the Caballo Dam. A number of diversion dams were also constructed in this project, including the Leasburg, Percha, Mesilla, American and Riverside diversion dams. [2] The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District built El Vado Dam and the Angostura, Isleta and San Acacia diversion dams.
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