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The Pecos River Cafe is pictured, March 29, 2024 on South Canal Street in Carlsbad. ... Aug. 26 at the Pecos River Cafe in Carlsbad, NM following Friday's 48-35 win over Artesia in the Eddy County ...
The Pecos River (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs; [4] Spanish: Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande.Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). [5]
Train rides on the Pecos Express are just some of the extra events offered this year during Christmas on the Pecos in Carlsbad. Holiday train rides, movie nights and shopping at the Pecos River ...
HAER No. NM-4-B, "Carlsbad Irrigation District, Avalon Dam, On Pecos River, 4 miles North of Carlsbad" HAER No. NM-4-C, "Carlsbad Irrigation District, Main Canal, 4 miles North to 12 miles Southeast of Carlsbad" HAER No. NM-4-D, "Carlsbad Irrigation District, East Side Canal, 1 mile North to 2 miles East of Carlsbad" HAER No. NM-4-E, "Carlsbad ...
On March 25, 1918, the growing town surpassed a population of 2,000, allowing then-governor of New Mexico Washington Ellsworth Lindsey to proclaim Carlsbad a city. Most of Carlsbad's development was due to irrigation water. Local cattlemen recognized the value of diverting water from the Pecos River to the grazing lands on Eddy's Halagueno Ranch.
Avalon Dam is a small dam on the Pecos River about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. The dam is a storage and regulating reservoir, and diverts water into the main canal of the Carlsbad Project , an irrigation scheme.
Brantley Lake is a reservoir on the Pecos River located within Brantley Lake State Park [2) approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico off US. It is impounded by Brantley Dam, completed in the 1980s as part of the Brantley Project of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
Utility lines were moved, highways US 285 and NM 137 were rerouted, and a $15,000,000 realignment of the Santa Fe Railway was constructed. In 1984, construction on the dam began. Concrete work was completed by autumn 1987, and soon after, the Pecos River was diverted through the new Brantley floodgates for the first time.