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A lawsuit was filed against Presidio County and Presidio Road and Bridge Supervisor after a retention pond built and owned by Presidio County burst and flooded a 10-acre property and the adobe home. The property owner’s lawsuit alleges that the county engaged in a pattern of “wrongful acts, omissions and/or negligence”.
The complaint identifies issues dating back to 2010 when a project to remove sediment from the retention pond was never completed and in 2013 when sediment was dumped into the retention pond instead of removed from the pond.
Furthermore, in 2018 allegedly Count Judge Cindrela Guevara instructed the Presidio Road and Bridge Supervisor to make repairs to the pond and to put up signs prohibiting dumping and vehicle entry into the pond or the dam, which was never completed.