{"id":626273,"date":"2026-05-06T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626273\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:44:08","slug":"tucsons-newest-sculpture-tackles-flooding-on-grant-road-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626273\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson&#8217;s newest sculpture tackles flooding on Grant Road | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; A new coyote sculpture named Dodger now stands at the intersection of Grant Road and Dodge Boulevard as part of the Grant Road Improvement Project.<\/p>\n<p>The public art piece sits in a detention basin designed to reduce flooding on Grant Road. The basin collects stormwater and safely releases it into the drainage system to keep water moving through the area.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was installed as part of Phases 3 and 4 of the Grant Road Improvement Project, according to the Tucson Department of Transportation &amp; Mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) &#8211; A new coyote sculpture named Dodger now stands at the intersection of Grant Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,3729,3,452],"class_list":["post-626273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-local","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}