[ARROYO FIELD NOTES]

2023 New Mexico Monsoon OutlookWeather Forecast Report
2023 Arroyo Monsoonal Calendar Monoprint Series
2024 Thoughts on the Arroyos - Details Photographs
2024Brain Dump Re: the Hahn Arroyo [S.L.] Audio Transcription
1977 Geology of the ABQ Basin Report
1991 ABQ Flooding + AMAFCA Brochure
2024 AMAFCA Maintenance Map Map
2024 Brain Dump Re: Bear Canyon + Hahn Arroyo [J.K.] Sketches + Audio Transcription
2024 Sketches in Bear Canyon  [S.L.]Sketches + Photos
2024 (Printed) Arroyo Field NotesBook/Archive
2024 Sketches in Piedra Lisa + Embudo Arroyos Sketches
1995 ABQ Arroyo Sediment Study Report
1937 Historic Map of Albuquerque Map
2023 Exploring the Bear Trib Arroyo Photographs
2023 Wet and Dry Tests Monoprints
2024 Life and Changes in the Bear Canyon and Pino Arroyos Written Entry + Photos
1974 AMAFCA Brochure  Brochure
2024 Growing Up Around the Arroyos [R.S] Written Reflection
2024 Arroyos [K.J] Written Reflection
1980s
2020
La Llorona Campaign + Article

1986 Facility Plan for the Arroyos Report + Project Plan
2021 Geneiva’s Arroyo Greenway ProjectDesign Proposal
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1980s + 2020

La Llorona 


Source: Ditch & Water Safety Task Force
                Ana Alonso-Minutti
Arroyo Safety Campaign 
Artist, Writer, Resident






“In Albuquerque’s hot desert, ditches are commonly used for skateboarding and swimming during the summer months. However sudden storms can cause flash flooding, and swimming in ditches has caused multiple drownings. With the slogan, “Ditches are deadly. Stay away,” the local government has appropriated and exploited the story of La Llorona to issue a public safety campaign. Throughout the summer and fall of 1984, for example, city buses carried boards picturing a scary female figure with the words, “Ditches are Deadly!” Locals recognized that figure as representing La Llorona (Bareiss 1984, 2). The slogan has also been used in school programs and has been distributed in brochures, bumper stickers, and signs. Most recently, however, the advertisement phrase has been modified to “Ditch the Ditches,” and the scary figure of the Ditch Witch has been replaced with a bright blue, furry, human-sized, playful looking “Water Monster.” This change of slogan and figure can be read as one of multiple “whitening” strategies that have been implemented by the local government to water down Albuquerque’s strong Indo-Hispanic roots, making the city more attractive to (white) outside investors.”      






Excerpt from
Ana Alonso-Minutti’s

“LA LLORONA IN NOISE: A TALE FROM THE RIO GRANDE”