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Carlsbad Irrigation District, Pecos River Flume, On Main Canal, .5 mile North of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, Eddy County, NM
Location.5 mile North of Carlsbad,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER NM-4-E
National Register Number: 66000476
Significance: The Pecos River Flume carries the main canal of the Carlsbad Irrigation District across the Pecos River Channel. The flume was designed by Thomas Taylor Johnston, a civil engineer from Chicago, and constructed in 1903 at a cost of $50,000. On completion, the 492-foot long by 47-foot high flume was the largest irrigation flume in the United States. Four pairs of arches support a massive concrete trough with a capacity of 15000 cubic feet of water per second. Floodwaters seriously damaged the flume a year after completion, washing out the banks at either end and undermining the foundation. After purchasing the privately-owned irrigation project, the U.S. Reclamation Service undertook extensive rehabilitation of the flume in 1906. The wingwalls were extended and the width of the foundations increased. The Civilian Conservation Corps added stone masonry cutwaters in 1939.
Related Names
Johnson, Lon, Photographer
Quivik, Fred, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. PECOS RIVER FLUME - CARLSBAD SPRINGS WITH FLUME IN BACKGROUND. VIEW TO WEST
2. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW OF WEST SIDE
3. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW OF EAST SIDE
4. PECOS RIVER FLUME - 3/4 VIEW OF EAST SIDE
5. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW OF TOP AND EAST SIDE
6. PECOS RIVER FLUME - DETAIL OF SECOND SPAN FROM NORTH. VIEW TO WEST
7. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW OF UNDERSIDE OF ARCH SHOWING SOUTH ABUTMENT
8. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW OF UNDERSIDE OF SOUTHERN-MOST ARCH SHOWING CCC CUTWATER. VIEW TO NORTH
9. PECOS RIVER FLUME - CUTWATER WITH CCC DATE BLOCK. VIEW TO NORTHWEST
10. PECOS RIVER FLUME - NORTH END. VIEW TO SOUTHWEST
11. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW FROM INSIDE FLUME TO NORTH END
12. PECOS RIVER FLUME - SOUTH END. VIEW TO NORTH
13. PECOS RIVER FLUME - VIEW FROM INSIDE FLUME TO SOUTH END
14. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of historic photo, 1890 (original print located at the Carlsbad Irrigation District offices, Carlsbad, New Mexico), Stringfellow, Eddy, N.M., photographer 'OLD WOOD FLUME'
15. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of historic photo, May 1, 1903 (original print located at the Carlsbad Irrigation District offices, Carlsbad, New Mexico), Butler, Carlsbad, photographer. VIEW OF PECOS RIVER FLUME UNDER CONSTRUCTION
16. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of historic photo, October 29, 1906 (original print filed in Record Group 115, National Archives, Washington, D.C.) W.J.L[ubken], photographer 'CONCRETE FLUME ACROSS THE PECOS RIVER, SHOWING THE COMPLETED PIER UNDER ARCHWAYS'
17. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of historic photo, January 29, 1907 (original print filed in Record Group 115, National Archives, Washington, D.C.), W.J.L[ubken], photographer 'DETAILED VIEW SHOWING COMPLETED CUT-OFF WALLS AT SOUTH END OF CONCRETE FLUME, AND ALSO PUDDLING IN AND ABOUT THE SAME'
18. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of historic photo, June 16, 1916 (original print filed in Record Group 115, National Archives, Washington, D.C.) H.T.C., photographer 'CARLSBAD'S FAMOUS SPRING. DISCHARGES 4,000 GALLONS DAILY' (PECOS RIVER FLUME IN THE BACKGROUND)
19. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of construction drawing c1905 (from Record Group 115, Box 17, Denver Branch of the National Archives, Denver) GENERAL PLANS CONCRETE FLUME OVER THE PECOS RIVER AND DETAILS OF PIER FOOTING
20. PECOS RIVER FLUME - Photographic copy of construction drawing dated February 1905 (from aperture card located at Bureau of Reclamation, Salt Lake City, Utah) EXTENSION OF CONCRETE AQUEDUCT
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