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<br />NEWSPAPER INFORMATION
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<br />GUILTY DITCH? - 'Some San Luis residents
<br />feel that ditches such as this one at the edge of
<br />town will help drain away water, while others
<br />feel they make the town's basement-flooding
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<br />Source of floodin~:: stilll a puzzle
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<br />problems wors,e, and stili others feel San Luis
<br />simply has alwilYs had a hi9h water table,
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<br />(Courier photo by Wanda Dietrich)
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<br />By WANDA DIETRICH He feels that a trench dug from near his house to the river
<br />, Courter Correspondent would catch and 9rain the water away from his house and
<br />SAN LU1S - Basement flooding in San Luis is more those of his neighbors, but is having problems starting the
<br />prevalent than previous news stories indicated, but local project He had considered pwnpiW: excess water away froi1:i
<br />, residents do not agree over just what causes the problem, his property and onto neighboring f.elds, which could use the
<br />'For the 1a:.t ten years Alex Quintana, who lives southeast of water, but the state will not pennit ti,e water to be Used one,,,
<br />San Luis, lIB" had excess water in his basement, threatening it is pwnped away. ,
<br />to burn out Us furnace, and killing his garden and orelum!: ' Dos Hennanos ,RMch Manager E:hner Valdez, isn't sure ::,
<br />Now he lIB" two and a half feet of water in his basement. He i'drainage trench will work for Quin~ma. Asimilar trench dug'
<br />,has borrow,!d a pwnp from a neighbor to try to keep his in an alfalfa field north of San Luis at the request of th"
<br />, ,basement dry, but the neighbor needs the pwnp for the same nearby residents seems" to have worsened the' water
<br />reason. " . problems near there. The ditch has been filled and the fm
<br />Next door to Quintana, Ernest Valdez has a potato cellar 'packed down, in an effonto help control the water, but it
<br />that is almost unuseable. Right now it has standing water in doesn't seem to have helped much.
<br />it. If the \nIter remains untillhis year's potatoes are har- Valdez agrees tbal residents notice more water on those
<br />vested, Valdez may have to rent a different cellar, as he did occasions that water is in the field, but points out that the
<br />last year. ' , town irrigation sys:lP..m and the Rito Seco also contribute U;,
<br />As with t~e water in North Sa'n Luis, this is a summer the proble.l1. He f.",1s that perhaps the water table lor the
<br />problem, starting early in July and lasting into September, entire t.own is rising, as his home, in the middle of San Luis, '
<br />.,Quintana blames irrigation and a ;>ond that was dug as a also has water:n the basement.
<br />.,;gravelpitforthewater. There will be a meeting of waler engineers, town and
<br />2;, "We dlmi't bave any problems until that pond was put in," county officials and concerned ciU""1S at the San Luis TOWII
<br />he said. ' - HE,ll today to discu,,, this problem.
<br />. THURSDAY, July30, 1987..
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