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Elephant Butte Dam

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Elephant Butte Dam, main unit of the Rio Grande project of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on the Rio Grande, SW N.Mex.; completed 1916. The dam, with its large reservoir, is used for flood control, hydroelectric power, and irrigation. The project was involved in a water-rights dispute between the United States and Mexico that was settled by a treaty in 1906.
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One of her Truth or Consequences photos is a pretty little landscape with a pump house by the Elephant Butte dam.
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But the only occasions for work in New Mexico that Conlin recalled were working with the state police at Elephant Butte Dam in the 1990s, trying to recover bodies of victims of David Parker Ray.
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