Levee Fails, Presidio Begins To Flood
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Levee Fails, Presidio Begins To Flood
Water from the swelling Rio Grande was creeping into Presidio Thursday after a levee failed.
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(September 18, 2008)—A levee protecting Presidio from the swelling Rio Grande failed Thursday, officials said, and water is creeping through low-lying portions of the West Texas border town.

No homes were immediately threatened.

Heavy rain and the forced release of water from a Mexican reservoir pushed the Rio Grande to the top of the levee.

Presidio County attorney Rod Ponton says Gov. Rick Perry's office has approved a request to send helicopters that will drop large sand bags around a railroad trestle.

Officials hope to turn the trestle into a makeshift dam to help protect the town of about 5,000, located across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga, Mexico.

Authorities received permission to use about 300 prisoners as the work force to fill in gaps with smaller sand bags.

The levee breach has already swamped a golf course and some farmland.

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Posted by: my hometown Location: west 84 on Sep 18, 2008 at 06:50 PM

My relatives are telling me that are alot of houses under water and people lost everything in some places, churches, and shelters a full, my relatives are helping in one small church, they took a lot of clothes, and daily them and some of their neighbors are cooking 1 meal for about 75 to 100 adults and children. It's a bad situation.
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