Elephant Butte Dam
- Title
- Elephant Butte Dam / Sherry Fletcher and Cindy Carpenter.
- Published by
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2015]
- ©2015
- Author
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- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- On November 18, 1904, engineer B.M. Hall submitted his final report to the 12th National Irrigation Congress in El Paso, Texas. He concluded that the ideal location for a dam and reservoir would be a site in western New Mexico. A congressional act of February 25, 1905, authorized the construction of Elephant Butte Dam, the first civil engineering structure concerned with international allocation of water. Part of the Rio Grande Project, the dam and its reservoir would provide irrigation water for farmers along the Rio Grande in New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. Today, Elephant Butte Dam is designated as a National Historical Engineer Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the oldest national professional engineering society in the United States. The area is home to Elephant Butte Lake State Park, where camping, fishing, and water sports are enjoyed by both residents and tourists.--Amazon.com.
- Series statement
- Images of America
- Uniform title
- Images of America.
- Subject
- Dams > New Mexico > History > Pictorial works
- Reservoirs > New Mexico > History > Pictorial works
- Barrages > Nouveau-Mexique > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
- Réservoirs (Lacs) > Nouveau-Mexique > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
- Dams
- Manners and customs
- Reservoirs
- Elephant Butte Reservoir (N.M.) > History > Pictorial works
- Elephant Butte (N.M.) > History > Pictorial works
- Elephant Butte (N.M.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
- Éléphant Butte, Réservoir (N.-M.) > Histoire > Ouvrages illustrés
- New Mexico
- New Mexico > Elephant Butte
- New Mexico > Elephant Butte Reservoir
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Contents
- Preparing the land: the damsite -- Diverting the Rio Grande: the flume -- Living in the camps: the segregation -- Building a modern marvel: the dam -- Recreation and regulations: the state park.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library