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West Side residents hope creek restoration, more trails will revitalize community


West Side residents hope creek restoration, more trails will revitalize community
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The West Side has been home to Amelia Valdez’s family for 100 years.
After moving from Múzquiz, Mexico, the family picked cotton and lived in
corrales rows of small houses along Apache Creek, where they also washed their clothes. But in the 1950s, badly needed flood control projects covered springs and creek beds with concrete and cut off neighborhoods from one another.
Today, plans to construct hike-and-bike trails and restore the ecosystem of Alazán, Apache, Martinez, San Pedro and Zarzamora creeks have been in the works so long, some may have written them off or forgotten about them. But restoration of the creeks has quietly moved forward. ....

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