Camp Mohave Elementary School

Date completed: November 2013

Cost $59,000

The Camp Mohave Elementary School, located in Fort Mohave at the intersection of Calle del Media and La Entrada Place, has experienced flooding problems in its playground area for many years. The school was built within the floodplain of the Camp Mohave Wash. Portions of the playground have been under several feet of stormwater in the past, endangering the students at the school. Mohave County owns a 60-foot wide road right of way that crosses the playground. That right-ofway was not being used for any county purpose and was being used by the school as part of their soccer field.

In the fall of 2013, the Mohave County Flood Control District partnered with the school district, McCormick Construction and Ludwig Engineering to design and construct a channel that drains the low area in the playground. The joint project consisted of grading a new shallow channel starting from an existing channel in the Calle del Media right-of-way, easterly across the right of way to the school facility, across the soccer field within the county right-of-way for Vista del Sol Drive and thence southeasterly across the school property to the low points in the playground that pond water. Mohave County Flood Control District constructed the portion of the channel in the public rights-of-way and the School District constructed the portion on their property. The county portion of this project is necessary in order to drain the upstream low points in the school playground.