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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, in New Mexico, US, is the world's third deep geological repository (after Germany's Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben and the Schacht Asse II salt mine) licensed to store transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years. The storage rooms at the WIPP are 2,150 feet (660 m) underground in a salt ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, Carlsbad has a total area of 29.2 square miles (75.6 km 2 ); 28.9 square miles (74.9 km 2) of the city is land, and 0.3 square miles (0.7 km 2 ), or 0.93%, is water. Most of the water within city limits consists of the Pecos River and Lake Carlsbad recreation area.
3.1 kt. Project Gnome was the first nuclear test of Project Plowshare and was the first continental nuclear weapon test since Trinity to be conducted outside of the Nevada Test Site, and the second test in the state of New Mexico after Trinity. It was tested in southeastern New Mexico on December 10, 1961, approximately 40 km (25 mi) southeast ...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is an American national park in the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico. The primary attraction of the park is the show cave Carlsbad Cavern. Visitors to the cave can hike in on their own via the natural entrance or take an elevator from the visitor center. The park entrance is located on US Highway 62 ...
A former mining town that also once contained the only medical facility between Albuquerque and Gallup . Baldy Town. Baldy Mining Camp. Colfax. 1888. 1940. Historic site. The site is part of the Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. It has stone ruins, mill foundations, a chimney, mine tailings, and a smelter slag pile.
Website. www .co .eddy .nm .us. Eddy County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,314. [ 1] Its county seat and largest city is Carlsbad. [ 2] The county was created in 1891 and later organized in 1892. [ 3] It is north of the Texas state line.
Cavern City Air Terminal. / 32.33750°N 104.26333°W / 32.33750; -104.26333. Cavern City Air Terminal ( IATA: CNM, ICAO: KCNM, FAA LID: CNM) is a public use airport in Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. [1] It is owned by the city of Carlsbad and located five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southwest of its central business district. [1]
October 15, 1966 [1] Designated NHLD. July 19, 1964 [2] The Carlsbad Irrigation District, also known as Carlsbad Reclamation Project or Irrigation system of the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company, is a major early water reclamation project located near Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico. Begun in the 1880s, it is now managed by the ...