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UNION REJECTS COUNTY OFFER; NEGOTIATIONS GO TO ARBITRATION
Inmate laborers from the Doña Ana County Detention Center will be at work Wednesday morning, Aug. 30 to clean weeds and trash from the Doña Ana County Indigent Cemetery on E. Griggs Avenue. The project is scheduled to begin between 9:30 and 10:15 a.m., continuing until the cemetery grounds are fully cleaned.
At the request of Hatch Mayor Judd Nordyke, Doña Ana County road crews and heavy equipment have been dispatched to repair washouts to two major thoroughfares servicing the village. Crews and equipment are expected to arrive within the hour to begin repairs on Canal Road and N.M. 187.
During the early morning hours today, heavy runoff caused a breach of the Placitas Arroyo near Hatch. The breach occurred on the north side of the arroyo and allowed floodwaters into fields. Downtown Hatch was not affected.
The Doña Ana County Engineering Office will post four-way stop signs at the intersection of Taylor Road and Doña Ana Road. The new signs will go up on Sept. 11, 2006.
Hatch Mayor Judd Nordyke has announced that bank accounts have been established in Hatch and Las Cruces where residents may make cash donations to assist flood victims in his community. Donations can be made in Hatch at Bank of the Southwest and in Las Cruces at First Community Bank. Both accounts are set up in the name of “Hatch Flood Victims.”
The Rio Grande is experiencing extensive runoff, and the river at Hatch at this hour is flowing bank-to-bank and rising. The river is running at 6,000 cubic feet per second. River flows could double by 1 a.m.
Storm-related runoff is filling the Rio Grande north of Hatch, and capacity river flows are moving south.
Doña Ana County Roads crews have closed Canal Road at N.M. 187 north of Hatch due to a developing sinkhole.
The Placitas Arroyo has breached and is flooding to an open field near Hatch, but no water is headed toward the village.
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