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Elephant Butte Dam

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Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande river near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. [1]

22 relations: Aswan Low Dam, Caballo Dam, Devils Tower, Elephant, Elephant Butte Reservoir, Elephant Butte, New Mexico, Francis turbine, Geographic Names Information System, Gravity dam, Hydroelectricity, List of Rio Grande dams and diversions, National Register of Historic Places listings in Sierra County, New Mexico, Peter E. Kern, Rio Grande, Rio Grande Project, Texas, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, United States, United States Bureau of Reclamation, United States Geological Survey, Watt, Wyoming.

Aswan Low Dam

The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt.

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Caballo Dam

Caballo Dam is an earthen dam on the Rio Grande about downstream from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, United States.

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Devils Tower

Devils Tower (also Bear Lodge Butte) is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains (part of the Black Hills) near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Elephant Butte Reservoir

Elephant Butte Reservoir is a reservoir on the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico, north of Truth or Consequences.

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Elephant Butte, New Mexico

Elephant Butte is a city in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, near Elephant Butte Reservoir and State Park.

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Francis turbine

The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine that was developed by James B. Francis in Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Gravity dam

A gravity dam is a dam constructed from concrete or stone masonry and designed to hold back water by primarily utilizing the weight of the material alone to resist the horizontal pressure of water pushing against it.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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List of Rio Grande dams and diversions

Rio Grande dams and diversions are structures that store water along the Rio Grande or its tributaries, or that divert water for use in irrigation.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Sierra County, New Mexico

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sierra County, New Mexico.

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Peter E. Kern

Peter E. Kern (October 13, 1860 - February 8, 1937) was a jeweler and real-estate entrepreneur in El Paso, Texas and Skagway, Alaska.

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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande (or; Río Bravo del Norte, or simply Río Bravo) is one of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Colorado River).

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Rio Grande Project

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.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Truth or Consequences is a city in and the county seat of Sierra County, New Mexico, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service (not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Butte_Dam

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