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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]
Pandale is located in Val Verde County at a Pecos River crossing, four miles south of the conjunction of Texas Ranch to Market Road 1024 and the Langtry-Pandale Road, at which point the Pandale Church stands. Pandale can be reached by traveling north from Langtry on the Langtry-Pandale County Road, an unpaved caliche county road.
The Pecos River — a tributary of the Rio Grande in West Texas. Pages in category "Pecos River" ... Pecos Wilderness; Pope's Crossing; T. Texas v. New Mexico; Tunas ...
In addition, some locals in western Texas experienced rainfall from Alice that exceed yearly averages. This contributed to significant flooding along the Pecos River, reaching a flood stage of 55 ft (17 m) in Pandale. The flooding swept away a group of fishermen in Sheffield as well as at a location 10 mi (16 km) north of Pandale, killing four.
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]
The road intersects FM 11 in Imperial before crossing the Pecos River into Crane County. [5] The road intersects SH 329 in Tubbs Corner [ 6 ] and turns to the northwest crossing FM 1233 [ 5 ] and entering Ector County before terminating at I-20 [ 7 ] approximately 7.5 miles (12.1 km) west of Penwell.
Apr. 14—American Rivers, a Washington, D.C.-based conservation organization, ranked the Pecos River No. 5 in its new report on the nation's most endangered waterways — largely due to the ...
Intrepid Potash appealed a decision that blocked about 34,000 acre feet of Pecos River water the company planned to use annually. Water users 'disappointed' as Eddy County sides with Intrepid in ...