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Photographer: Bill Kirchner
Taken: July 21, 2011
Caption: Elephant Butte Dam and Powerplant
Additional Description: 1912 to 1916 -- 1938 to 1940
Capacity 2,109,000 acre feet - Height of dam 301 feet
Surface area 36,521 acres
United States
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
Rio Grande Project - New Mexico - Texas
Submitted: July 27, 2011, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164439
File Size: 2.846 Megabytes

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