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The Maricopa Flood Control District will meet at 6 p.m. today to discuss business.
The meeting will be held on Zoom. The meeting code is 521 882 4617 and the password is 411411.
The board will hear the latest developments on the Desert Cedars project. With the City in the process of selling the parcel on the southeast corner of Bowlin Road and John Wayne Parkway, the board will discuss how to approach the project with this change.
District manager David Alley will give an update on MFCD’s election, scheduled for Oct. 6 for the seat of Director Scott Kelly, whose term is expiring. Kelly has announced his plan to seek re-election and has submitted all the paperwork necessary for qualification.
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Desert Cedars residents may soon have their homes removed from the FEMA floodplain map due to remediation efforts by the Maricopa Flood Control District in conjunction with the city and Pinal County. Photo by Jay Taylor.
Some Maricopa residents are required to purchase flood insurance even though they live miles from the nearest wash. But their expensive plight moved closer to ending at the May 6 Maricopa Flood Control District meeting.
The district approved a plan allowing the City of Maricopa – if it approves the project – to raise the land at the corner of Bowlin Road and State Route 347 about 18 inches with compacted fill dirt.
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During an inspection of maintenance work in the Santa Rosa Wash, Maricopa Flood Control
District director David Alley discovered a large-scale erosion problem created by a Senita
homeowner backwashing a pool onto the upper bank of the wash. It cost more than $5,000 to
repair and restore. Photo by MFCD
The Maricopa Flood Control District is working with City officials to prevent erosion in the city washes caused by residents.
An ordinance banning the release of water pool backwashing, specifically onto the banks of the washes is proposed. As more and more residents drain their pools into the wash, the district is having to foot the repair bill.
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A contracting crew works in the Santa Rosa Wash, north of Honeycutt Road, in early January. Photo by Bob McGovern
As work neared completion on a “repair and replace” maintenance project in the Santa Rosa Wash, David Alley did a walkthrough last week.
The district manager of the Maricopa Flood Control District identified four issues not included in the original scope of work by the contractor, KLP Enterprises, which may have concluded the project as early as Friday.
As a result, the MFCD board of directors had a special meeting on Thursday night on Zoom to hear Alley describe the issues and repairs, and to consider amending the original contract to authorize the additional work.