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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 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 ...
[1] It preserves portions of the Rio Grande Project, a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project which distributes water of the upper Rio Grande River. [2] It is in the area of Las Cruces, New Mexico. The district runs roughly along U.S. Route 85 between its junction with New Mexico State Road 90 and the El Paso, Texas city limits.
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.
A private dam project backed by British investors was in the works in 1894 just upstream from the dam site and also by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It was eventually blocked by the U.S. Secretary of State "on basis of a technicality that the Rio Grande was arguably a navigable river and permission from the War Department was also needed ...
This water was to come from water previously diverted into the Rio Grande system by Public Law 87-843 of 1962 [8] from water in the Colorado River basin via the San Juan–Chama Project across the Continental Divide. The dam was one of the projects proposed in 1966 for nuclear quarrying projects under Project Travois, a component of Project ...
The Rio Grande — a major international river of North America, in Mexico and the United States The main article for this category is Rio Grande . Subcategories