Ge n u lake pumping that seepage water back into huge focus on the North Valleys now, the lake,” Menes said. “Those pumps also where there hadn’t been in the past. We’re serve another purpose, which is whenever it focusing most of our regional mitigation rains, we’ve created a barrier that prevents planning on Swan Lake. What that consists the storm water from going into the lake, of is—we have a number of stakeholders which can create it’s own set of problems from the engineering community and other with flooding. So the pumps also take that agencies. We’re sort of evaluating the nuts storm water and pump that into the lake, and bolts of a series of alternatives for too. These pumps have to be mainhazard mitigation for Swan Lake.” tained. We’ve got to keep diesel They’re looking for longin them. We’re constantly term solutions to flooding “We adjusting them and tweakhazards at the lake. While don’t want ing them. We have a effective for the time vendor that helps us being, the HESCO them to be there with that. And we spend barriers and pumps forever—definitely a lot of money doing aren’t intended to be not.” that—between $100,000 permanent fixtures of and upward of $250,000 a the lake. Dylan Menes month in maintaining this “We don’t want them to Washoe County Senior pump system—to protect the be there forever—definitely Engineer residents of Lemmon Valley not,” Menes said. … to keep the lake in the lake.” But as to what long-term The bentonite cost the county solutions might look like, he said, $4,090. For now county engineers plan to that’s still unclear. keep an eye on the barriers—which are “We’re just looking at them right monitored daily—and see how the bentonnow—we’re not even into feasibility—but ite clay they’ve added to them performs as there’s levees, pumping out of the hydrothey continue work on other flood managebasin,” Menes said. ment projects. For now, though, long-term solutions and “There’s a lot of work going on the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan that will regionally with our partners, the City of contain them are still a ways off. □ Reno and RTC,” Menes said. “And one of the things the county is working on with the engineering community is the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan, which Learn more about flood mitigation in Lemmon Valley here: is countywide. But there’s obviously a www.washoecounty.us/lemmon-valley.
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