{"id":8762,"date":"2018-07-06T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8762"},"modified":"2018-07-06T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:58:50","slug":"flooding-causes-city-leaders-to-re-evaluate-drainage-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8762","title":{"rendered":"Flooding Causes City Leaders to Re-evaluate Drainage Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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City\u2019s drainage ditch on North Arroyo Boulevard . Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n

by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The recent flooding caused by the two downpours in mid-June turned several streets in Los Fresnos into raging rivers.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s nearly impossible for any city in this part of South Texas to handle so much rain coming down so fast, the city will look into improving its drainage system.<\/p>\n

In the Los Fresnos area, nearly 14.5 inches of rainfall was reported in the city and its surroundings to the point of flooding several homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way to prevent a flood as it happened last week,\u201d Mayor Polo Narvaez said last Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are going to start looking into how to fix this ongoing problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said city streets such as Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Canal and Nogal tend to flood the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard water went into several houses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to start working to improve this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to weather volunteers who report rain precipitation to the National Weather Service office in Brownsville, Los Fresnos received 14.5 inches of rain during four days.<\/p>\n

Narvaez said that kind of precipitation will create flooding no matter what.<\/p>\n

He said the city needs to do something similar to what it did several years ago around O\u2019Reilly which used to be the area that flooded the most.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have annexed new areas,\u201d the mayor said, \u201ctherefore, the need for better urban planning is there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Narvaez said the Lower Rio Grande Development Council has provided some funding before and will make contact with the organization soon.<\/p>\n

But City Commissioner Juan Mu\u00f1oz believes the problem with flooding could be alleviated if officials pay more attention to the drainage ditch off North Arroyo Boulevard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city hardly sends crews to clean the ditch,\u201d he said. \u201cThe water backs up when it reaches the trash-filled city\u2019s drainage ditch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Tony Vindell\/LFN The recent flooding caused by the two downpours in mid-June turned several streets in Los Fresnos into raging rivers. Although it\u2019s nearly impossible for any city in this part of South Texas to handle so much rain coming down so fast, the city will look into improving its drainage system. In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}