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| Street View, Apr 2024 |
The outlet conduit in the spillway is running.
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| usbr "Elephant Butte Dam and Reservoir (originally called Engle Dam) is on the Rio Grande, 125 miles north of El Paso, Texas, can store 2,210,298 acre-feet of water to provide irrigation and year-round power generation. This is a concrete gravity dam 301 feet [92m] high and 1,674 feet [510m] long including the spillway. It contains 618,785 cubic yards of concrete. The dam was completed in 1916, but storage operation began in 1915. "The power system consists of a 24,300-kilowatt hydroelectric powerplant at Elephant Butte Dam. A system consisting of 490 miles of 115-kilovolt transmission line and 11 substations totaling 81,750 kilovolt-amperes, which was developed and operated by the Rio Grande Project until 1977, has been sold to a private electric company. "Geology "Foundation: Hard, sound, fissured sandstone in irregular beds, containing pockets and interbedded strata of friable shale and numerous small springs throughout foundation area" |
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| 6:52 video @ 3:13 History of Elephant Butte Dam It can hold over 2 million acre-feet of water. When built, it was the second largest irrigation dam in the world, and it created the largest man-made reservoir ever built. [@ 1:17] |
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