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摘要

The Ridges Basin Reservoir is part of the Animas-La Plata Project to provide water for Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Indian tribes and water districts in the states of Colorado and New Mexico. Based near Durango, Colo., at an elevation of over 6,500 ft. above sea level, the filter material processing plant commenced full-scale operation in the spring of 2005. The dam at Ridges Basin is over 262 ft. high and stretches for about 1,312 ft. from one canyon wall to the other. It's an earth-filled embankment structure requiring about 900,000 tons of washed and dry processed filter materials. The whole plant will process about 2.3 million tons of raw feed in two years of operation.