Craig Smith is KGUN 9's Southeast side reporter. Send your story ideas to Craig at [email protected].
Midtown Tucson has some extra challenges when it comes to monsoon flooding. A lot of the area was built without any sort of storm sewer so Pima County Flood Control and the City of Tucson are cooperating on small locations like small parks, where the contours of the land carry the water down and hold it in a containment pond to keep it safely out of streets and homes.In Midtown, when the rain comes down, the streets fill up.
She spent a lot of years working for Pima County Flood Control. Now she’s following County and City efforts to pump up protection for midtown.Near Kino Parkway, Cherry Field is ready for baseball now, but its deep bowl structure is meant to catch and hold high flows of stormwater. But midtown is so built up now it’s hard for the County and City to get enough land for big, new flood control sites.
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