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Height. 60 feet (18 m) Reservoir. Total capacity. 202,000 cubic yards (154,000 m 3) Avalon Dam is a small dam on the Pecos River about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States. The dam is a storage and regulating reservoir, and diverts water into the main canal of the Carlsbad Project, an irrigation scheme.
The Carlsbad Irrigation District, also known as Carlsbad Reclamation Project or Irrigation system of the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company, is a major early water reclamation project located near Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and provides irrigation ...
DOE: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 ...
110,000 acre⋅ft (0.14 km 3) Land irrigated. 92,479 acres (37,425 ha) v. t. e. The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States. The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin ...
It's science beyond putting greens. Golfers Gary Woodland, Corey Connors and Adam Scott check the slope of the 14th green and their putting lines. Pin placement requires much study in each round ...
In 2022, New Mexico had a total summer capacity of 10,230 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 40,889 GWh. The electrical energy generation mix in 2023 was 38.7% wind, 35.2% natural gas, 19.1% coal and 6.5% solar PV.
Water volume. 335,054 acre⋅ft (413,283,000 m 3) Surface elevation. 3,300 ft (1,000 m) Brantley Lake is a reservoir on the Pecos River located within Brantley Lake State Park [2] ( 32.545115°N 104.374403°W) approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of Carlsbad, New Mexico off US 285. It is impounded by Brantley Dam, completed in the 1980s as part ...
The Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant is a desalination plant in Carlsbad, California, north of the Encina Power Station. [2] [3] The San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA), the recipient of the fresh water produced by the plant, calls it "the nation’s largest, most technologically advanced and energy-efficient seawater ...