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The Clark County Regional Flood Control District (CCRFCD) was created in 1985 by the Nevada Legislature allowing Clark County to provide broad solutions to flooding problems. The District has developed plans and so far successfully continued working on a 50-year program to eliminate most flooding from a 100-year flood in the populated areas for ...
Sep. 7—Longtime residents of Las Vegas, N.M., might remember Anselmo Valdez from his shop, Gambles Valdez Enterprises, where he spent nearly seven decades selling hardware, appliances and furniture.
Structural flood management (i.e: flood control) is the reduction of the effects of a flood using physical solutions, such as reservoirs, levees, dredging and diversions. Non-structural flood management includes land-use planning, advanced warning systems and flood insurance.
A heavy gauge metal barrier protects Forest Road 263 and the canyon west of Montezuma, New Mexico, added as a method of flood and debris control following the fire. Workers from the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico dumping stone and earth to form a breaker to reinforce a bridge from potentially hazardous post-fire flooding of the Gallinas creek.
Weather forecasters warned Monday that much of New Mexico faces two more days of elevated threats of dangerous flooding like the walls of water over the weekend that caused severe damage, forced ...
Jun. 17—Sandbags are piling up in Mora. Crews are building temporary flood barriers west of Las Vegas, and San Miguel and Mora county officials are warning residents to be ready to evacuate at a ...
In Sparks, the Truckee River reached flood stage at 2:00 a.m. on January 1, followed by Reno at 10:30 a.m. [1] The river's flood stage was 12 feet, and it crested at 14.7 feet on January 2, breaking the last record of 13.8 in 1950. [12] [13] The river experienced widespread flooding throughout its 90-mile course between Lake Tahoe and Pyramid Lake.
Record flash flooding hit Roswell and the surrounding areas of Chaves County, damaging homes and sweeping cars off the roads