Over in Arizona where the land is flatter they started building little damns in flash flood areas to slow down the water so it has a chance to spread out and soak into the ground more, but it wouldn't work where that video was taken.
Over in Arizona where the land is flatter they started building little damns in flash flood areas to slow down the water so it has a chance to spread out and soak into the ground more, but it wouldn't work where that video was taken.
Yup, those are deeply incised features, good idea though.
They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
Post by Taq.I.To They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
They're often called "retention dams (or dikes)" and all of the development of the past 50 years in the El Paso and Las Cruces foothills required numerous of same. Developers insisted on building in those arroyos that typically flash flood every year and I have no idea why they were (and still are) allowed to do that.
Post by Taq.I.To They have something like that on a roadcut on I-25 near Tor C.
They're often called "retention dams (or dikes)" and all of the development of the past 50 years in the El Paso and Las Cruces foothills required numerous of same. Developers insisted on building in those arroyos that typically flash flood every year and I have no idea why they were (and still are) allowed to do that.
Simple - $$ talks.
I'm glad they have the I-25 one, but, now that memory serves, someone has built a sizable new home at the bottom of the arroyo, west side, right in view of the Interstate!