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Area. 24,500 acres (99 km 2) Elevation. 4,500 ft (1,400 m) Established. 1964. Governing body. New Mexico State Parks Division. Elephant Butte Lake State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, located 7 miles (11 km) north of Truth or Consequences along the shore of Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County.
Surface elevation. 4,414 ft (1,345 m) Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the southern part of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Truth or Consequences. The reservoir is the 84th largest man-made lake in the United States and the largest in New Mexico by total surface area and peak volume.
Camping trailers sit at the very edge of the shore of Elephant Butte Lake on May 31, 2023. One year ago, with the reservoir at less than ten percent capacity, this sandy peninsula had extended far ...
The reservoir and dam receive water from a catchment of 28,900 square miles (75,000 km 2), about 16% of the Rio Grande's total drainage area. [7] The Elephant Butte hydroelectric station is a base load power plant that draws water from the reservoir and has a capacity of 27.95 megawatts. [8]
Water levels can be seen at Elephant Butte Reservoir on June 18, 2023. To counteract dry summer months, the dam releases certain amounts of water between May and October. ... Water data in the ...
Jun. 20—ELEPHANT BUTTE — Neal Brown dismantled, relocated and reassembled one of his marinas at Elephant Butte Lake State Park last week. Dropping reservoir levels prompted the rare, labor ...
Tributaries and sub-tributaries are hierarchically listed in order from the mouth of the Rio Grande upstream. Major dams and reservoir lakes are also noted. San Juan River, or Rio San Juan (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila) [1][2] Marte R. Gómez Dam and Marte R. Gómez Reservoir (Tamaulipas) [3] Pesquería River, or Río Pesquería (Nuevo León)
The terms of the Compact state that once the Elephant Butte reservoir is filled, New Mexico and Colorado are immediately released from any water debt they have accrued. Colorado's debt to New Mexico at the time, 500,000 acre-feet (620,000,000 m 3 ) of water, was immediately cleared, settling the balance between the two states, but leaving New ...