Flooding causes ditch overflow near Cherokee Rd NW, Albuquerque NM


Flooding caused the ditch near Cherokee Rd NW to overflow, threatening nearby homes with water backing up on both sides of the ditch.
Audio|Source: Albuquerque-Bernalillo County-Rio Rancho Fire/Rescue
01:10
Transcript:
00:00
I'm not sure who you guys would call, but yeah, it's just the ditch is overflowing. We kind of cut a little bit to have some relief, hoping that it'll take away the flooding into this one house.
00:14
But we just hope that we got it to the street more than on the house for now. But yeah, whatever you guys are calling, they need to get in to do what they can.
00:25
Copy that, do you know approximately where it's backing up or if anything's in it?
00:36
We're trying to send an email to some city departments to assist them and finding it because they weren't notified of it yet
00:48
Sure, yeah, we're on Cherokee, so both sides of this dish on Cherokee are backed up.
00:55
And I couldn't tell you where the problem is, I guess, so that doesn't really help, but on both sides, you know, to the north and the south of Cherokee, it's overflowed to the banks.
01:09
Got that, sir, thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Cherokee Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107
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