The Texas Water Development Board has given its approval to a massive project designed to alleviate flooding in a mostly lower income neighborhood just to the northeast of Socorro, Texas.
The project caries with it a $45 million price tag, and will see the excavation of around 300 feet of ground, before the building of a 300-foot long basin, as well as an embankment with a height of some 40 feet.
To be built at the lower end of what is known as the Sparks Arroyo, the floodwater detention basin project is currently in the design phase, which is expected to be completed by the late summer of 2023.
Work on the detention basin, with a one-year construction schedule, will most likely begin in December of 2023.
Created in 1957, the Texas Water Board has to date provided both loans and grants totaling more than $32 billion for water infrastructure projects throughout the Lone Star State.
Funding from the board for the Sparks Arroyo project come in the form of a $20.7 million no-interest loan, along with a $13.8 million grant.
By Garry Boulard
