Maintenance work at Rio Vista Falls is expected to continue until mid May following several delays caused by vandalism, weather and additional work needed on the project.
City of San Marcos Senior Engineer Greg Schwarz said the project was delayed from its original March timeframe because of challenges of dewatering the river to allow access for construction as well vandalism to the barriers keeping the water out of the work area.
“Anytime we get rain, that causes delays,” Schwarz said. “Then there was just more work. We can’t always see everything. We did our best to inspect it underwater but more things needed to be addressed. We also had the pipes underground [to move water around the project], some of the joints were leaking and they were leaking enough … and they were flowing pretty good so we had to figure out what was going on and how to address that. I think one of the big things is just that dewatering this was a challenge and keeping it dry enough to construct.”
