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Elephant Butte Dam Bridge
Photos
Elephant Butte Dam under construction 1914
Wikipedia
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Video
Elephant Butte Dam - Sierra County Centennial Video Series
This video tells the story of the Elephant Butte Dam (a National Historical Engineer Landmark with the ASCE) and how it came to be constructed in this particular location as opposed to on the U.S. / Mexico border. Life in the workers camp is described, as well as impacts the dam and its construction had on the town of Las Palomas Hot Springs (now the city of Truth or Consequences). Centennial Video Series |
Facts
- Overview
- Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Rio Grande on Nm52
- Location
- Mountain View, Sierra County, New Mexico
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1915
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 299.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 1979
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.15493, -107.19242 (decimal degrees)
33°09'18" N, 107°11'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/295531/3670603 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Elephant Butte
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 79001556 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 64895 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of December 2014)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 68.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
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