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    Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The...
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    bases stationed at Elephant Butte. It is impounded by Elephant Butte Dam and is part of the largest state park in New Mexico, Elephant Butte Lake State Park...
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    5, 2020). "Elephant Butte looks the part, but a long, storied history is at the center of how the dam got and kept its name". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved...
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    Rio Grande Project (category Dams in New Mexico)
    plans were drafted up for a large storage dam at Elephant Butte, about 120 miles (190 km) downstream of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Newlands Reclamation...
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    Dams on the Rio Grande include Rio Grande Dam, Cochiti Dam, Elephant Butte Dam, Caballo Dam, Amistad Dam, Falcon Dam, Anzalduas Dam, and Retamal Dam....
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    of dams and diversion in the Rio Grande basin. The Rio Grande Project built the Elephant Butte Dam and the Caballo Dam. A number of diversion dams were...
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    settlement did not begin until the construction of Elephant Butte Dam and its reservoir in 1912; the dam was completed in 1916. It was a part of the Rio...
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    Bulletin Number 75: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico". International Boundary and Water...
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    Bosque, Sevilleta Corridor, BLM Socorro Bosque, Camino Real Corridor, Elephant Butte Corridor, and Southern State Parks Corridor. A map of the trail corridor...
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    the valley is Cochiti Dam at the river's confluence with the Santa Fe River. Other major dams are Elephant Butte Dam and Caballo Dam. Diversion structures...
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  • Dam". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved 2021-01-16. "El Vado Dam Hydro Plant". Global Energy Observatory. Retrieved 2021-01-16. "Elephant Butte Dam"...
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    (121 km/h). Before I-25 reaches Truth or Consequences and just south of Elephant Butte Reservoir State Park, it crosses over to the west side of the Rio Grande...
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    impounded by the Cochiti Dam, built in 1975. After leaving the basin via Socorro, the river is impounded by the Elephant Butte Reservoir, built in 1916...
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    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...
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    Abiquiu, Jemez Canyon (by exchange), and Elephant Butte. Citations Operations Fact Sheet. Ferrari 2011, p. 1. Dams and Diversions... Gould 1999, p. 3. Ferrari...
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    5, 2020). "Elephant Butte looks the part, but a long, storied history is at the center of how the dam got and kept its name". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved...
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    Reclamation operates and maintains El Vado Dam and the river from Velarde to the Narrows of Elephant Butte Reservoir. The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy...
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    Gulf of Mexico in Texas. Now it can only be seen between Cochiti Dam and Elephant Butte Reservoir.they can also be found in a small pond in North Carolina...
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    the Interior. This habitat extended from Cochiti Dam to the north of Albuquerque down to Elephant Butte Reservoir in the south. The Fish and Wildlife Service...
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  • and Socorro County to the Elephant Butte Reservoir in the south. It manages the Angostura, Isleta and San Acacia diversion dams, which feed an extensive...
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  • San Acacia, New Mexico (category Albuquerque metropolitan area)
    of the Rio Grande that extends south to the Elephant Butte Reservoir. The nearby San Acacia Diversion Dam is used to transfer water from the river into...
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    Lake State Park". New Mexico State Parks. Retrieved February 9, 2011. "Elephant Butte Lake State Park". New Mexico State Parks. Retrieved February 9, 2011...
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    Over the past 50 years, snowpack has been melting earlier in the year. Dams capture most meltwater and retain it for use later in the year. But upstream...
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    Nest Lake State Park Elephant Butte Lake State Park El Vado Lake State Park Heron Lake State Park Hyde Memorial State Park Leasburg Dam State Park Living...
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  • to build a dam down river. By the end of the 1920s, Paraje became a ghost town. In 1942, the site was first submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir....
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    Petroglyph National Monument (category Geography of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
    City of Albuquerque. The western boundary of the monument features a chain of dormant fissure volcanoes. Beginning in the northwest corner, Butte volcano...
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    Press. Albuquerque: 1987. p.245, column 2. Young, Robert M. and William Morgan. The Navajo Language. Revised Ed. Univ. of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque: 1987...
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    Paso, Texas, was highlighted by the dedication of the new Elephant Butte Dam in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, on October 15. One evening featured a debate...
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    2017. McKay, Dan (August 30, 2010). "ABQ Celebrates New Bike Bridge". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved April 18, 2017. McClannahan, Rory (December 10, 2007)...
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    century. Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. Many Chacoan buildings...
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