There are flood warnings going out to some Tucson property owners and we have an update on a Pima County program to buy and demolish homes prone to flood.
When the Bighorn Fire burned a lot of ground cover off Mount Lemmon, water rushed down the mountainside and into Finger Rock Wash; there it funneled trouble into a lot of houses in the Foothills along Havasu Road. Now Pima County Flood Control is spending close to four million dollars to buy up flooded homes in the name of safety.Her neighborhood was built in the early 1960s before rules that would have restricted homes in a recognized flood plain.
County records show six homes either acquired or in the process at a cost of about 3.7 million dollars.Joe Cuffari of Pima County Flood Control says removing the homes is safer for residents, and first responders who would need to rescue them from a flood. “In 2022 an assisted living facility along the finger rock was impacted. That's 10 residents who had disabilities through there and there were about seven emergency vehicles that had to go in and respond to that area. This is all during a flood event. They could have been used elsewhere if needed.”Soon about 22 hundred property owners in the City of Tucson will get letters warning them their properties are in danger of flooding.
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