Operation Splash underway

Yesterday, June 15, marked the first day of Tucson’s monsoon. As weather patterns shift to bring moisture into Tucson, crews from the City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM) Streets Maintenance Division recently delivered barricades to hundreds of dip crossings throughout the city. Protecting the public on city streets during Tucson’s summer thunderstorm season is the objective of the Operation Splash campaign. DTM staff is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through mid-September. As washes flood, crews will close roadways at dip crossings and washes using more than 500 barricades near the crossings. DTM will also assist residents concerned with flooding by offering free, self-serve sandbags in the east parking lot of Hi Corbett Field, 700 S. Randolph Way, at Reid Park. DTM is monitoring the National Weather Service and local forecast and will place sand and sandbags a few days ahead of the first forecast storm. Please bring your own shovel. Since 2016, DTM has distributed approximately 115,000 sandbags.
Read the news release: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/OperationSplash 
Watch a video about Operation Splash 2021:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqiJqf5sPo 

National Weather Service forecast: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=32.13153&lon=-110.95635#.YMp1A6hKg2x