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DRIVEWAY ACROSS ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM
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DRIVEWAY ACROSS ELEPHANT BUTTE DAM
NEAR HOT SPRINGS, NEW MEXICO
This great dam at Elephant Butte is 1674
feet in length and 318 feet in height from bed
rock. The flood waters impounded behind
this mass of concrete back up forming a lakes
40 miles in length.
Known as the Rio Grande Project, and
built by the Government under supervision of
the Reclamation Service, at a cost of over
$12,000,000 and reclaiming 200,000 acres of
fertile land.
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