{"id":261991,"date":"2026-04-23T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:07:08","slug":"el-paso-water-warns-dam-in-westside-could-overflow-crews-work-to-prevent-breach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/261991\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Water warns dam in Westside could overflow; crews work to prevent breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A dam in West El Paso could overflow and affect roads like Doniphan and Paisano, the utility company warns. <\/p>\n<p>According to El Paso Water, crews are working to reduce pressure on Cement Lake as they recognize that it could breach.<\/p>\n<p>Cement Lake is located in an undeveloped pocket between I-10 and Doniphan Drive. <\/p>\n<p>EPWater said it is coordinating with local agencies as crews work to maintain the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The utility company added that it acquired Cement Lake and 300 surrounding acres in March from the Texas Department of Transportation as part of an open space acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/borderland-community-invited-to-review-road-and-transit-projects-for-the-next-20-years?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Borderland community invited to review road and transit projects for the next 20 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A dam in West El Paso could overflow and affect roads like Doniphan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-261991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}