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Presidio Braces For More Water
Officials in Presidio were preparing Saturday for another emergency effort to save the weakened levee that protects the community from the Rio Grande.
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(September 20, 2008)—Officials in Presidio were preparing Saturday for another emergency effort to save the weakened levee that protects the rural border community from the Rio Grande.
Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton says Mexico is taking in more water at Luis Leon Reservoir and will probably have to start increasing the releases.
The Rio Grande in Presidio, a dusty border town of nearly 5,000 about 250 miles southeast of El Paso, has been threatened by the possibility of massive flooding for nearly two weeks.
The river has been rising because of torrential rains in Mexico and the forced release of water from the Luis Leon Reservoir, which flows into the Rio Conchos and in turn into the Rio Grande.
Earlier this week, a small levee break several miles east of the populated areas of the city caused floodwaters to wash over an 18-hole golf course and envelop hundreds of acres of farmland.
Ponton said Saturday crews plan to line just more than a mile of another section of that levee with heavy plastic anchored by sandbags in an attempt to keep any water from leaking through.
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