Arroyo Colorado to be dredged after historic Rio Grande Valley floods

Nonprofits helping Rio Grande Valley residents recover from flooding

PHARR, Texas (Border Report) -- About 60 Rio Grande Valley residents showed up Tuesday for the first of five town hall meetings held by La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) to help those who have been affected by recent historic flooding on the South Texas border. Representatives from the nonprofits Red Cross and ARISE Adelante also were on hand to help locals who have questions, or need help filling out disaster application forms. Arroyo Colo…

Arroyo Colorado to be dredged after historic Rio Grande Valley floods

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- A Colorado company will design the dredging of a section of a South Texas waterway that flooded during historic recent rains, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission says. US withholding water from Mexico to address debt, official says Stantec Inc., of Denver, has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to design the dredging of 6.3 miles of the Arroyo Colorado, the IBWC announced. The two-year c…

Seeking Flood Justice in the Rio Grande Valley

Flooding in the Rio Grande Valley last month. (Photo credit: Vanessa Santiago in Mercedes, Texas.)Subscribe now“Back in 2020 when we had the hurricane, my house fell from the foundation, so we had to pick it up and strap it down. It was a huge mess,” said Lizbeth Ramos, a community organizer who lives near Donna, Texas, in a colonia—a type of unincorporated community that tends to be among the hardest hit by large storms. “Whenever it floods whe…