Corps of Engineers provides funding for Rio Grande projects

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New Mexico is getting federal funding to build a floodway near Socorro and two other water projects related to the Rio Grande.
U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers will provide $7 million to continue building the initial five miles of structural levee in the Rio Grande Floodway’s Socorro segment.
The floodway will eventually replace 43 miles of existing levee along the Rio Grande’s western bank and is inte