Pima Co. may buy flooded Foothills homes

TUCSON, Ariz. —

The problem connects to the aftermath of the Bighorn Fire. That fire has raised the flood risk in some places to the point where Pima County may buy some homes it can't protect.She was living through a rerun of a similar flood that hit her house last summer. She says it’s time to move out and move on. But who’d buy a house with a history of flooding? Maybe Pima County Flood Control. It has a program to buy homes that are a continuing flood risk, and tear them down.Joseph Cuffari of Flood Control says, “That also allows the flood control district to access the wash more readily available."

This neighborhood around Havasu Road was already identified as a flood plain but the Bighorn Fire really raised the risk. It burned the ground cover off wide swaths of Mount Lemmon. That made it easier for water and mud to surge down the mountainside and into homes like Enid’s.

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