City has plan to protect homes along Sand Creek

and city crews are still cleaning up from yesterday’s storms and floods. and some of the work.. will take months to complete. krdo newschannel 13’s bart bedsole is live tonight near academy and maizeland .. on the southeast side of colorado springs.. bart, a lot of people still drying out there. james… according to the city, 2 to 3 inches of rain came down in this part of colorado springs monday. it exposed a number of new areas in need of drainage improvements… and aggravated some old wounds like this one. nat machine city crews out early today.. repairing damage done to this robidoux circle bridge. rushing water actually pulled pavement off the road. but a day later … you would never know it happened. that’s not the case for tiffany bishop’s home along sand creek. monday’s rain ate away nearly 10 feet of soil behind it. including her backyard fence. tiffany bishop – i have four kids. and it’s scary to even think that my kids could have been out here when any of this had gone down. it’s … it’s terrifying. she says the concrete embankment collapsed in a similar rain event two years ago… and nothing was done to fix it. tiffany bishop – every time it rains, more and more of it washes away. bart standup – until now, the family has never had a clear picture of what the city intended to do out there, but after this week’s rain, they were told the city will not only clean up all this old concrete, but rebuild the concrete embankment, and give them back every bit of land they lost. it turns out the project to fix the canal… was already in the works. last year, fema agreed to provide most of the 250-thousand dollars to pay for it. brian kelley – stormwater projects manager – fortunately, this is a fema- funded project. it’s currently in design. we anticipate construction later this year. city crews did put up a temporary fence in the family’s backyard… but they still don’t plan to let the kids play out here… until the threat of losing even more ground to the creek has passed. the city recently signed an agreement to spend nearly 500 million dollars on stormwater improvement projects… to better control flooding downstream in pueblo county. but we learned today a lot of that money… will actually go toward projects like this one. back every bit of land they lost. it turns out the project to fix the canal… was already in the works. last year, fema agreed to provide most of the 250-thousand dollars to pay for it. brian kelley – stormwater projects manager – fortunately, this is a fema- funded project. it’s currently in design. we anticipate construction later this year. city crews did put up a temporary fence in the family’s backyard… but they still don’t plan to let the kids play out here… until the threat of losing even more ground to the creek has passed. the city recently signed an agreement to spend nearly 500 million dollars on stormwater improvement projects… to better control flooding downstream in pueblo county. but we learned today a lot of that money… will actually go toward projects like this one. live on the southeast side… bart