Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande river near Truth or Consequences New Mexico. The dam impounds Elephant Butte Reservoir which is used for both recreation and agriculture. After construction the amount of water continuing to flow downstream in the Rio Bravo lessened from a foot deep to only a stream. The dam is part of the Rio Grande Project a project to provide power and irrigation to south-central New Mexico and west Texas.
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