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The Rio Grande Project is a United States Bureau of Reclamation irrigation, hydroelectricity, flood control, and interbasin water transfer project serving the upper Rio Grande basin in the southwestern United States. The project irrigates 193,000 acres (780 km 2) along the river in the states of New Mexico and Texas. [1]
Rehabilitation of these dams, and construction of the Cochiti Dam were undertaken by the Middle Rio Grande Project. [1] The San Juan–Chama Project brings water to the Rio Grande basin from the Colorado River Basin , building the Heron Dam to store some of the water, with an expansion of the El Vado Dam storing some of the remainder.
The Middle Rio Grande Project manages water in the Albuquerque Basin of New Mexico, United States.It includes major upgrades and extensions to the irrigation facilities built by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District and modifications to the channel of the Rio Grande to control sedimentation and flooding.
The 1938 Rio Grande Compact provided for the creation of a compact commission, the creation of gaging stations along the river to ensure flow amounts by Colorado to New Mexico at the state line and by New Mexico to Elephant Butte Reservoir, the water once there would fall under the regulation of the Rio Grande Project which would guarantee ...
The El Vado dam was originally built by the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District as a storage facility for irrigation water to be used in the Middle Rio Grande Basin. [1] Construction began in 1933 and the dam was completed in 1935. [3] Impoundment of the reservoir, which filled by 1936, inundated El Vado, the largest town of Rio Arriba ...
The Rio Grande Project was authorized on 2 December 1905. The U.S. Reclamation Service designed a 10 feet (3.0 m) high, 600 feet (180 m) long concrete weir to replace the old dam. Work began in November 1906. [1] Leasburg Diversion Dam was the first dam completed on the Rio Grande Project by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. By 1908, the ...
Amistad Dam (Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico.Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation, it is the largest dam along the international boundary reach of the Rio Grande. [1]
The Mexicans would withdraw their water from the Rio Grande at the Acequia Madre about 2 miles (3.2 km) downstream from the point where the river starts to form the international border. [3] Riverside Diversion Dam was the lowermost dam of the Rio Grande Project, downstream from the Mexican dam.