We're taking a step back in time for Throwback Thursday to learn about the Carlsbad Project in NM. Today's photo shows a group of workers after cleaning one of the Project's lateral canals.
The Carlsbad Project was one of the earliest Reclamation projects and is significant as a surviving example of mixed 19th and 20th century technology. Many features of this project are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Carlsbad Project is in southeastern New Mexico near Ft. Sumner and Carlsbad.
The Carlsbad Project stores water in Santa Rosa (a Corps of Engineers Dam), Sumner, Brantley, and Avalon Dams to provide water for about 25,000 acres within the Carlsbad Irrigation District.
Project features include Sumner Dam and Lake Sumner (formerly Alamogordo Dam and Reservoir), McMillan Dam (breached in 1991 and replaced with Brantley Dam, Avalon Dam, and a drainage and distribution system to irrigate 25,055 acres of land in the Carlsbad area.
Learn more about the history of the Carlsbad Project here: https://go.usa.gov/xnXVM
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