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- For days, heavy rains pummeled the Rio Grande do Sul state, triggering widespread flooding that has killed at least 150 people and displaced more than 600,000. Some areas saw more than 20 inches of precipitation—equivalent to the amount of rain typically seen over several months in this region.
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1 day ago · Near the river, and along Chacon and Zacate Creeks, flooding can be life threatening, as the Rio Grande River backs them up. The sewage plant is under several feet of water. The International Bridge floor floods, and livestock are cut off and potentially drowned in the flood plain, above Eagle Pass to Falcon Reservoir.
Water reaches lowest residences in the flood plain flood below Amistad Dam to below Laredo. Streets, roads and bridges near the river are dangerously flooded. Livestock are trapped and possibly drowned below Del Rio to below Laredo.
Sep 21, 2022 · Dam releases on the Rio Conchos lead to sustained flooding on the Rio Grande. by Sam Karas September 21, 2022. SOUTH PRESIDIO & BREWSTER COUNTIES — After weeks of heavy rain, Mexican reservoirs on the Rio Conchos — a major tributary of the Rio Grande — exceeded capacity, leading to a large release of water.
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Most of this problem comes down to the Rio Conchos, the largest single water source and, effectively, the Texas’ river’s headwaters. It flows—or lately, it doesn’t —from the Western Sierra Madre of Chihuahua into the Rio Grande between Ojinaga, Mexico, and Presidio, Texas. Today a meek Conchos dribbles into the Rio Grande’s dry bed in a dusty, yell...
This dry spell spreads far beyond the old Junta de los Rios. Across a swath of North America, scientists have identifiedmore than two decades of unusual dryness, as wilted cactus in the Chihuahua Desert attest. About 150 miles downstream from the mouth of the Conchos, a 74-year-old retired backcountry firefighter named Guadalupe Davila points out w...
After Boquillas, the Rio Grande squiggles through about 220 miles of wild canyons and pristine, sparsely-inhabited country until it hits the dam that forms the Amistad Reservoir. Here, the free-flowing river ends for good. Afterwards, its flows are man-made. This dam, completed in 1969, spans six miles to catch the floods that roll down the river a...
Laredo forms part of the largest metro area on the Rio Grande below the Conchos. Founded in 1755, it’s better known today as “los Dos Laredos” since U.S. annexation converted the river into an international border. About 260,000 people live in Laredo, Texas, and another 425,000 across the river in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Leaders there are aware o...
About two hours’ drive south from Laredo, the highway dips from yellow grasslands into the vibrant green of irrigated fields and orchards. This broad, low floodplain runs for some 70 miles until it meets the sea at Laguna Madre. Although it is known as the Valley, the Rio Grande Delta would be more accurate. Here the river used to rise above the lo...
In a green grove outside Edinburg, Silva parks his pickup truck beside a small pump station and a one-acre pond. Another similar setup lies nearby, and another can be seen in the distance. Silva manages 1,500 acres like this for the ECA on behalf of investors, absentee owners and a few local farmers. He checks the notes on his clipboard. This pump ...
In the Sierra Madres of Mexico’s north, the river basins that feed the Rio Grande ran bone dry this summer after six consecutive years of low rainfall. “Many of the rivers that used to be permanent, now they don’t exist,” said Oscar Leal, water program coordinator at Pronatura Noreste, an environmental nonprofit based in Monterrey, the largest city...
May 8, 2024 · Brazil is grappling with one of its worst floods in recent history. Torrential rains have drenched the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, home to 11 million people, since late April and...
Jul 7, 2010 · July 7, 2010 / 5:00 PM EDT / AP. Updated at 11:26 p.m. EDT. Reservoirs along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to their highest levels in decades after days of drenching rain, forcing officials to close...
