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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.
Netherlands: The Netherlands is known for its integrated approach to water management, including flood protection. The country employs a combination of dikes, polders, floodplains, and adaptive strategies to manage flood risk. Initially, polders had primarily agricultural function, contributing to agricultural production.
The Spring River channel overflowed causing what the National Weather Service in Albuquerque described as "extreme flooding" in downtown Roswell and throughout the southeastern New Mexico town of ...
The United States Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 (Pub. L. 83–566) is a United States statute. It has been amended several times. Baker River Watershed Floodwater Retarding Structure No.6
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The Nevada Department of Transportation closed travel lanes on Nevada State Route 447. [13] Debris closed all but one lane on U.S. Route 93 northbound. [14] The National Weather Service office in Las Vegas recorded 0.88 inches (22 mm) of rainfall, which was the wettest day in September in 11 years. [15]
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.