Volunteers help with Vado clean up after flooding

VADO, New Mexico (KVIA) -- Clean up efforts are still underway in Vado after the flash flooding earlier this week.

Multiple construction crews are helping by pumping out water and digging out mud in yards.

"Being raised here in this area knowing from the from the previous disaster, I knew that there was going to affect a lot of people as far," said David Dominguez, president of Sandoval Construction. "From dewatering and also getting damages inside the house and just trying to help out."

Nine Degrees Construction was also out helping. They helped by bringing excavators to help bring the mud out of the roads and people's yards.

"If you can see a lot of these areas, we're close to four feet under water," said Cesar Molina, a worker with Nine Degrees. "You can still see the traces of water on the buildings, it was very shocking."

A lot of the damage in the area is around Swannack Road. ABC-7 spoke with residents in the area who say their yard has four feet of mud.

"We can't get an apartment. We can't go and try to find a new place. We need our house back," said Andrew Gravenstein.

Gravenstein has lived in Vado his whole life and has never seen anything like this.

"What we really wish for is to have more dig out crews, some muck crews to help us get our properties back."