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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.
FLOOD RECOVERY UPDATE: RED CROSS ISSUES DEBIT CARDS; TRASH PICK-UP SCHEDULED; CLEAN-UP TEAMS AVAILABLE; HATCH VILLAGE OFFICES RELOCATE; FURNITURE DONATIONS ACCEPTED; TETANUS SHOTS OFFERED
Volunteers from Doña Ana County and surrounding areas who wish to assist the Village of Hatch with clean-up operations will be given their opportunity on Saturday, Aug. 19.
New Mexico State Police are requesting volunteers who can assist immediately with debris clean-up, food services and shelter support in the Village of Hatch.
Preliminary residential damage assessments by the American Red Cross coming out of the Village of Hatch are as follows:
Destroyed: One single-family home and 24 apartments
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