Floodwaters Continue to Recede In The Big Bend
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Floodwaters Continue to Recede In The Big Bend
Conditions are improving in the city of Presidio.
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(September, 22 2008) – For the second day in a row, floodwaters and the swollen Rio Grande river receded in the West Texas border city of Presidio Sunday.

Presidio, a dusty outpost at the edge of Texas' Big Bend region, has been under threat of a massive flood for nearly two weeks as rain has soaked rivers and reservoirs in Mexico, forcing Mexican officials to send water toward the normally shallow Rio Grande.

Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton says that the river has dropped slightly.

A stable river is good news for the town of about 5,000 people some 250 miles southeast of El Paso where officials have warned that the saturated levee holding the river back could fail at any time. Still, Ponton said the city would remain imperiled as long as
the river filled the wide channel between levees on both sides of the border.
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