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Pecos River Flume. The Pecos River Flume is an aqueduct carrying irrigation water over the Pecos River. Construction took place from 1889 to 1890 and was part of the Pecos River Reclamation Project. It was originally constructed of wood and spanned 145 feet (44 m). It carried water at a depth of 8 feet (2.4 m).
Red Bluff Dam is a dam in the Pecos River, situated about 40 miles (64 km) north of Pecos, Texas. Its Red Bluff Reservoir was formed in 1936 by the dam construction, organized by the Red Bluff Water Control District to provide water for irrigation and hydroelectric power. [1]
The current Pecos River High Bridge is a steel deck truss bridge on slip-formed concrete piers, ranging in height up to 275 feet (84 m). It was designed by Modjeski and Masters of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , with foundations constructed by Brown and Root of Houston and trusses fabricated by Bethlehem Steel Company of Chicago.
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. That winter, another channel was dredged through the McMillan silt to ease the water flow into Brantley. [1]
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Oct. 31—State Attorney General Raúl Torrez ventured to the Pecos River on Tuesday in a legal campaign targeting private landowners who use physical barriers and threats to keep the public off ...
Construction lasted from 1974 to 1979, and the name of the dam and lake were changed to Santa Rosa the following year. [ 3 ] The reservoir it creates, Santa Rosa Lake , has a normal water surface area of 26 square miles (67 km 2 ), a maximum capacity of 717,000 acre-feet (0.884 km 3 ), and a normal capacity of 200,000 acre-feet (0.25 km 3 ). [ 4 ]
The case involving access to the Pecos River is the first brought after the state Supreme Court in 2022 settled a long-simmering dispute over whether boaters and anglers had a right to access ...