Elephant Butte
Posted on | August 17, 2010 | Comments Off
This week’s bit of western water history comes from the archives of the Library of Congress.
Elephant Butte Dam, circa 1916 or '17, courtesy U.S. Library of Congress
Elephant Butte Dam (originally Engle Dam) is on the Rio Grande upstream from El Paso. Completed in 1915, it is currently the subject of a fascinating New Mexico water rights adjudication battle, nicely detailed by Sig Silber.
Related posts:
- Elephant Butte After the Rains
- Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
- Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: The View from Rattlesnake Point
- Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: Drying Up the Butte
- Meanwhile, on the Rio Grande…
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