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Desert Downpour

City officials say theymust reconsider every-thing from flood controlto building codes afterMonday’s historic flood-ing that swept intoscores of homes in southPhoenix.

For many of thosehomeowners, it was thesecond time in a monththat floodwatersbreached the naturalwashes and canals northof South Mountain andsurged into homes. Amajor storm that offi-cials deemed a 100-yearevent struck on Aug. 12.Some homeowners whohad already renovatedwere faced with havingto do it all again.

“It’s always a goodtime to be thinkingabout having the bestcodes possible, the bestinfrastructure, the bestflood control possible,”Mayor Greg Stantontold reporters on Tues-day.

“I think once we getthrough this initial as-sessment period ... it willbe incumbent upon all ofus here to look at all ofthose things (and) workwith Maricopa CountyFlood Control, the stateDepartment of Emer-gency Management andsay, ‘How can we im-prove? What can we dobetter? What can we doto minimize the im-pact’?”

The admission cameas officials were begin-ning the recovery proc-ess from Monday’sstorms, cleaning upstreets and assessingdamage to public infra-structure and homes.Besides city workers,crew members fromSalt River Project,which owns several ca-nals that breached insouth Phoenix, workedto clear roads and re-store driveways withdump trucks and back-hoes on Tuesday. Theyexpect the work to takeup to two weeks.

Kevin Kalkbrenner,Phoenix Fire Depart-ment’s assistant chiefand emergency-man-

agement coordinator,said preliminary esti-mates of the damage tocity infrastructure is$1 million. That figurecame from departmentheads around the city,but the actual cost willlikely rise significantly.

“I would say $2 mil-lion wouldn’t surpriseme,” he said.

Some of that damagewas at the light rail atPhoenix Sky Harbor In-ternational Airport andflooding in some citybuildings.

The city was stillassessing how manyhomeowners sustainedflood damage.

Officials appealedfor volunteers from

businesses andchurches to help home-owners hit by flooding.

“Maybe you’re a con-tractor or small busi-ness that has the skill setto help people repairdamage,” Stanton said.“Maybe you’re a churchgroup that has a largenumber of volunteers ...with big hearts thatwant to help people.Anybody out there whowants to be helpful andsupportive of peoplewho have suffered overthe last few days, pleasecontact the recovery in-formation center.”

The city will open twosuch centers, whereflooding victims canseek aid and get infor-

mation on resources andservices available tothem. Among them willbe the U.S. Small Busi-ness Administration,which will distributelow-interest disaster-re-covery loans to resi-dents and businesses af-fected by the storms.

Garth MacDonald, anSBA spokesman, saidloans are available withinterest as low as2.063 percent for home-owners and 4 percentfor business owners.

The recovery infor-mation centers will openat 8 a.m. Thursday at theTravis L. Williams Fam-ily Services Center, 4732S. Central Avenue, andthe Pecos CommunityCenter, 17010 S 48th St.in Ahwatukee Foothills,which was also impact-ed by flooding.

The city alreadyestablished a storm-recovery hotline at 602-534-2222.

Much of KorinaPedregon’s belongingswere in the front yard ofher home at ArdmoreRoad and 27th Avenueon Tuesday. It was a mix-ture of things she andher family were throw-ing away and things thatthey tried to save fromthe flood.

She said responsefrom the city had beenslow after the firstfloods in August. Sincethen, she said life in herneighborhood has be-come unbearable. Trash

that washed in duringthe storm lingers in theneighborhood and mos-quitoes, flies and fireants are a problem.

To make thingsworse, Pedregon saidshe suspects severalseptic tanks backed upin the first flood and thatsewage water had invad-ed their homes.

Stephanie Romero, acity spokeswoman, saidTuesday that, because ofthe widespread natureof the damage, she didnot immediately knowwhat remediation ef-forts were being con-ducted in Pedregon’sneighborhood.

Pedregon said moldhad started growing inthe walls of her house.

Pedregon said sheand her neighbors havereceived assistancefrom the American RedCross but have beenmostly on their own.

Ramona Torres, wholives across the streetwith her daughter andgrandchildren, also hasmold in her walls.

“This is the way welive now,” she said, ges-turing to her guttedwalls and the floor of herhome that was still cov-ered in a layer of dirt.

Torres said the fam-ily had pulled out muchof the drywall in thehouse that was damagedwhen the rainwatersstarted flowing underher front door again.

“I cry a lot.”

Stanton: City should re-examine flood controlD.S. WOODFILLTHE REPUBLIC i AZCENTRAL.COM

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Lonna Baccus shows how high floodwaters came into her home near 19th Avenue andDobbins Road in south Phoenix following Monday’s record-setting downpour.

Public-health offi-cials say they will close-ly monitor mosquito in-festations that couldrise from the smallponds and water-filledbasins created by Mon-day’s record-breakingrainfall and flooding.

The chief worry isthat mosquito breedingcould result in more in-sects carrying West Nilevirus across the Valley.

“It’s definitely a con-cern,” said Dawn Gouge,a University of Arizonaprofessor and public-health entomologist.“This is the time of yearwhen the virus activityreally gets going.”

Public-health and en-vironmental officialssay they will keep aclose eye on water ba-sins and makeshiftponds. They also encour-age people to check theperimeter of theirhomes and yards for ob-jects that can collect wa-ter.

So far this season,four people in Arizonahave died and an addi-tional 24 have been in-fected with West Nile vi-rus.

Most adults who areinfected show no symp-toms, which can includefever, headaches, bodyaches or stiffness.

Those with weakenedimmune systems, in-cluding some elderlypeople, may experience

more severe headaches,stiffness or inflamma-tion of the brain, accord-ing to the MaricopaCounty Department ofPublic Health.

More than 1,000 hu-man cases have been re-ported in Arizona sincethe virus surfaced inthis state in 2003. Mostpeople recover withoutmedical help, so thosecases are never report-ed to public-health offi-cials.

The county’s WestNile virus monitoringprogram sets about 640traps each week, saidJohnny Dilone of thecounty Department ofEnvironmental Ser-vices.

Dilone said that ifthose traps capture amosquito that tests posi-tive for West Nile, thecounty will spray insec-ticide in the affectedareas.

He said that peoplewho are concernedabout the insecticide —or those who would liketo request a mosquitotrap — can call the coun-ty’s West Nile virus hot-line at 602-506-0700.

He said his depart-ment plans to set moretraps once the rain sub-sides.

Dilone said thetrapped mosquitoestypically are tested forthe virus within 48hours, followed by in-secticide sprays in areaswith positive results.

Flood spawnscounty West Nilevirus concernsKEN ALLTUCKER THE REPUBLIC i AZCENTRAL.COM