Work continues to make Pueblo safer during flood season
Work is underway to make Pueblo a safer place during flood season.
Crews are on the Arkansas River Levee cutting the top 12 feet of the wall and improving Wildhorse Creek.
This is all part of meeting FEMA’s standards for the levee so people don’t have to pay extra for flood insurance.
The work will go all the way to the Santa Fe Bridge on Santa Fe Avenue, which crews are hoping to be done by May.
The construction includes tearing down parts of the historic levee mural.
Engineer Rick Kidd said crews don’t have enough money to save every piece of art.
“We checked into it. We got some pricing, and we can’t take the money resources we have to saving art. We just don’t have a money source to do that,” he said.
He said if you feel there’s a piece of art that should be saved, you can come to the Pueblo Conservancy District meeting. That will be at 10:30 Wednesday morning at Heritage Museum, which is across from the Union Depot.
