{"id":325096,"date":"2026-06-06T03:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/325096\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:43:07","slug":"cement-lake-in-west-el-paso-lowered-to-very-low-levels-amid-dam-safety-work-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/325096\/","title":{"rendered":"Cement Lake in West El Paso lowered to very low levels amid dam safety work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lake in West El Paso that drew concern in April over the risk of a potential dam breach has been lowered to \u201cvery low levels\u201d as crews work on safety improvements, according to El Paso Water.<\/p>\n<p>A video captured of Cement Lake on Tuesday showed that the water level appeared to be very low. <\/p>\n<p>El Paso Water later said in a statement that \u201ccrews have reduced the lake to very low levels while building a temporary overflow spillway that will allow excess water to be released to the Rio Grande to maintain public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The utility issued an advisory in April saying the lake could potentially breach. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-water-details-timeline-response-after-cement-lake-dam-breach-threat-texas-tx-department-transportation-txdot-doniphan-drive-president-ceo-john-balliew?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso Water details timeline, response after Cement Lake dam breach threat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time, crews worked to pump the lake into the Rio Grande to stabilize the dam.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Water President and CEO John Balliew said the dam was not inspected before El Paso Water purchased the property.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Water said its stormwater team \u201cis also working on the design of a longer-term solution to reinforce the levee.\u201d The utility added, \u201cOnce a permanent solution is in place, EPWater is committed to restoring lake levels.\u201d El Paso Water also noted, \u201cThere is a natural spring that continues to recharge the lake.\u201d<\/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":"A lake in West El Paso that drew concern in April over the risk of a potential dam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-325096","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\/325096","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=325096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}