Elephant Butte

noun

1. a dam and irrigation reservoir in SW New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. Dam, 309 feet (94 meters) high.

Example Sentences

Some of that work already is happening in the Elephant Butte Irrigation District, which serves about 5,000 farmers in southern New Mexico.

From Seattle Times

When staff from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science collected the partial skull of a large adult tyrannosaurus from the Elephant Butte Reservoir in the state in the 1980s, they initially assumed the fossils belonged to T. rex.

From New York Times

Sponsors of the law, including Republican state Sen. Crystal Diamond of Elephant Butte and Democratic state Rep. Christine Chandler of Los Alamos, say debt-based license suspensions are counterproductive.

From Seattle Times

If New Mexico fails to send enough water to Texas, then the Elephant Butte Irrigation District - the largest in New Mexico - must temporarily transfer rights to an irrigation district in Texas.

From Washington Times

If Texas receives too much, there would be a similar transfer from the El Paso district to the Elephant Butte district.

From Seattle Times