El Vado Dam
CountryUSA
Height52 m
Year1935
TypeEmbankment
RiverChama
About El Vado Dam
A 52 m steel-faced earth-fill dam in New Mexico. One of the first steel-faced dams. Provides irrigation storage. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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