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Pueblo Dam & Reservoir
The concrete dam and massive-head buttress-type spillway structure is the principal control structure for the reservoir. The concrete section is 1,750 feet wide with a maximum structural height of 250 feet. The spillway has a crest width of 550 feet and was designed for a maximum spill discharge of 191,500 cubic feet per second. The river outlet works is controlled by two 4-foot-square high-pressure gates and regulate normal water releases into the river. Additional releases may be made to the river through three separate spillway outlet works. Two 6-by-6.5-foot high-pressure gates control each outlet work. The south inlet works was designed and constructed to deliver water for municipal and industrial use is made from the south outlet works, a multilevel intake structure capable of taking water from the reservoir at different levels, thus providing a degree of control over water temperature and quality. Water deliveries from the fish hatchery outlet works have similar controls. Included in the outlet works are the outlet channel, a concrete river plug in the river channel, and the Bessemer Ditch headwork's. Pueblo Dam |
The terminal storage facility, Pueblo Dam and
Reservoir, is located on the Arkansas River in Pueblo County about six miles
upstream and west of the city of Pueblo. The reservoir has a total storage
capacity of 357,678 acre-feet: 30,355 acre-feet of dead and inactive
capacity; 234,347 acre-feet of conservation capacity; 65,952 acre-feet of
joint-use capacity; and 27,024 acre-feet of exclusive flood-control capacity.