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Blue Mesa Dam is a 390-foot-tall (120 m) zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado. It creates Blue Mesa Reservoir and is within Curecanti National Recreation Area just before the river enters the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The dam is upstream of the Morrow Point Dam. Blue Mesa Dam and reservoir are part of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Wayne N.

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length (km)
239.268
building start year
1962-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
height (cm)
118.872
vastest lake
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location
Colorado, Gunnison County Colorado, Sapinero Colorado
opening year
1966-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
operator
United States Bureau of Reclamation
river
Gunnison River
volume (km3)
2.35525e+06
latitude
38.4533
longitude
-107.334

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