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<\/a>SOCORRO COUNTY, N.M. \u2014<\/p>\nTwelve homes in San Francisco, New Mexico, remain isolated after the Rio Puerco overflowed late Friday night into Saturday morning, flooding the main access road and creating sinkholes. <\/p>\n
“More than likely I’m going to have to call out, so that’s less money in my pockets,” said Chris Mora, a resident affected by the flooding. <\/p>\n
The Rio Puerco has been flowing since monsoon storms began weeks ago, and additional water from areas west and north of Highway 60 has worsened the situation. <\/p>\n
“We’re getting flooded by all the water that comes from Acoma, Grants, Cuba — anything to the west and north of Highway 60,” said Chris Lopez, a lifelong resident. “[When] it rains over there, it comes to us from the [Rio Puerco].”<\/p>\n
Efforts to divert water into trenches and ponds have been made, but Lopez expressed concern about the limitations of these measures.<\/p>\n
“But once those ponds get full, the water has nowhere else to go but come to us. We’re in trouble,” Lopez said. <\/p>\n
Residents are worried about reliving past flooding incidents. <\/p>\n
“Twenty years ago, we got flooded. It ruined our house that we’ve had in the family for 100 years,” Lopez said. <\/p>\n
The rising water levels have also raised concerns about emergency access. <\/p>\n
“If we had an emergency out here, how would emergency services come in here and rescue anybody or help the people?” Lopez said. <\/p>\n
Driving an ATV through the submerged road or taking a hazardous 20-minute detour are two of the safer options for residents leaving the area. <\/p>\n
“[Ramon Lopez Road] is closed down due to some sinkholes that we’ve had,” said Adam Steinke, the fire chief for the North County Fire District in Socorro County.<\/p>\n
The fire chief emphasized that road repairs cannot begin until the area dries out. <\/p>\n
“This whole area here is going to have to dry out. The pothole or the sinkholes have to be dried out, so no water going through it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors, the Socorro County Fire District and New Mexico Game and Fish are working to divert water away from homes, but residents remain concerned about the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n
Residents are calling on regional and state conservancy departments for more assistance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flooding isolates 12 homes in San Francisco, New Mexico, after Rio Puerco overflows An overflowing Rio Puerco leaves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[189873,189876,189874,3413,189878,644,1575,1073,547,482,189877,288,189875,101,103,102,104,106,105,61837],"class_list":["post-485688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-additional-water","tag-area-west","tag-chris-lopez","tag-concern","tag-emergency-access","tag-flooding","tag-highway","tag-home","tag-new-mexico","tag-north","tag-north-county-fire-district","tag-resident","tag-rio-puerco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sinkhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}