Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Blue Mesa Dam is a 390-foot-tall (120 m) zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado. It creates Blue Mesa Reservoir, and is within Curecanti National Recreation Area just before the river enters the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The dam is upstream of the Morrow Point Dam.
Blue Mesa Reservoir is an artificial reservoir located on the upper reaches of the Gunnison River in Gunnison County, Colorado.The largest lake located entirely within the state, Blue Mesa Reservoir was created by the construction of Blue Mesa Dam, a 390 feet (120 m) tall earthen fill dam constructed on the Gunnison by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1966 for the generation of hydroelectric ...
Blue Mesa may refer to: Blue Mesa Dam, an earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado; Blue Mesa Reservoir, the largest body of water entirely in Colorado;
The largest reservoir entirely contained in Colorado is Blue Mesa Reservoir, with a capacity of 829,500 acre⋅ft (1.0 billion m 3). The total storage of the reservoirs on this list is 3,804,458 acre⋅ft (4.7 billion m 3 ), although not all is allocated for use by Colorado.
The narrow gauge's final abandonment came in 1955. In about 1963, when Blue Mesa Dam was built on the Gunnison River below Sapinero, the town was moved and re-established in its present location, prior to the area's inundation by the water of Blue Mesa Reservoir. The U.S. Post Office at Gunnison (ZIP Code 81230) now serves Sapinero postal ...
The Blue Mesa Dam impounds the Gunnison River upstream of the Morrow Point Dam forming the Blue Mesa Reservoir, making it the first dam the river passes through. The dam was completed in 1966 and has an electric generating capacity of 86,400 kilowatts, or about 30% of the Aspinall Unit's generating capacity. [12]
1 language. اردو; Edit links ... Blue Mesa Dam; C. Crystal Dam; M. Morrow Point Dam This page was last edited on 12 April 2017, at 00:58 (UTC). Text is available ...
Big Sandy Dam; Black Canyon Diversion Dam; Blue Mesa Dam; Boca Dam; Boise River Diversion Dam; Bonny Dam; Box Butte Dam; Boysen Dam; Bradbury Dam; Brantley Dam; Brantley Lake; Buffalo Bill Dam; Bull Lake Dam; Bumping Lake