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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.
Carlsbad Irrigation District. / 32.4919; -104.2524. 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 ...
New Mexico hosts the nation's only long-term underground repository for waste from nuclear weapons research and production, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. Extraction of the state's nearby Permian Basin oil reserves for transportation and other uses rose to the nation's third highest, contributing 6% of total U.S. production in ...
Intrepid Potash, Inc. ( NYSE : IPI ), based in Denver, Colorado, is a fertilizer manufacturer. The company is the largest producer of potassium chloride, also known as muriate of potash, in the United States. [1] It owns three mines, all in the Western U.S., near the cities of Carlsbad, New Mexico; Moab, Utah; and Wendover, Utah.
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 ...
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 ...
The Carlsbad Current-Argus is looking for which businesses people most want to see added to the city's offerings. The poll closes at noon on Friday, April 12. Voters can selected up to two options.
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 ...