Category:Blue Mesa Dam

**Blue Mesa Dam**
	dam in Cimarron, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
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Instance of	embankment dam; hydroelectric power station;
Located in protected area	Curecanti National Recreation Area;
Location	Gunnison County, Colorado
Located in or next to body of water	Gunnison River;
Owned by	United States Bureau of Reclamation;
Operator	United States Bureau of Reclamation;
Carries	Colorado State Highway 92;
Service entry	1967;
Inception	1962;
Nominal power capacity	86.4 megawatt (nameplate capacity);
Length	239 m;
Height	390 ft;
Elevation above sea level	7,529 ft;
Drainage basin	Gunnison River basin;
Reservoir created	Blue Mesa Reservoir;
	38° 27′ 11.88″ N, 107° 20′ 02.4″ W
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English: Blue Mesa Dam is a zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado. It creates Blue Mesa Reservoir and is within Curecanti National Recreation Area just before the river enters the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The dam is upstream of the Morrow Point Dam. Blue Mesa Dam and reservoir are part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Wayne N. Aspinall Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, which retains the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries for agricultural and municipal use in the American Southwest. The dam's primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation. Colorado State Highway 92 passes over the top of the dam. Blue Mesa Dam houses two turbine generators and produces an average of 264,329,000 kilowatt-hours each year.

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