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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 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 ...
More permanent diversions were built by the Spanish in New Mexico to feed acequias, or shared irrigation canals. [1] The first dam to impound the Rio Grande was the Rio Grande Dam, completed in 1914, followed by the Elephant Butte Dam, completed in 1916.
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.
Once completed, the Bureau of Reclamation began delivering water stored at Elephant Butte to two new irrigation districts: New Mexico’s Elephant Butte Irrigation District, and the El Paso County ...
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 Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (MRGCD) was formed in 1925 to manage the irrigation systems and control floods in the Albuquerque Basin.It is responsible for the stretch of river from the Cochiti Dam in Sandoval County in the north, through Bernalillo County, Valencia County and Socorro County to the Elephant Butte Reservoir in the south.