UNM Student/Keres Consulting Intern participates in Corporate Day of Service to Lend Extra Hands to Pueblo Sandbagging Effort

Keres President/CEO, Tim­o­thy Chavez and his son help­ing to fill sandbags.

Keres Con­sult­ing, Inc., an Albuquerque-based gov­ern­ment con­trac­tor that spe­cial­izes in asset man­age­ment and sus­tain­abil­ity, engi­neer­ing and envi­ron­men­tal sup­port ser­vices, recently vol­un­teered to assist in mit­i­gat­ing flood risk fol­low­ing the dis­as­trous after­math of the Las Con­chas fire. Keres staff helped fill some of the 30,000+ sand­bags at the Santa Clara Pueblo in prepa­ra­tion for the sum­mer mon­soon sea­son. Among Keres staff, Ali­cia Ortega a UNM stu­dent in the Ander­son School of Man­age­ment and a sum­mer intern at Keres Con­sult­ing, was espe­cially happy to help in the effort as she is from the Pueblo of Santa Clara.

The Las Con­chas fire burned tens of thou­sands of acres in the Santa Clara canyon and incin­er­ated miles of veg­e­ta­tion around the tribe’s head­wa­ters leav­ing the pueblo vul­ner­a­ble to high runoff and ero­sion. Mem­bers of the Albu­querque staff gath­ered last week at the Santa Clara Pueblo Senior Cen­ter to help in this effort to pro­tect the com­mu­nity from pos­si­ble flood­ing dis­as­ters in the future.

“Keres is thank­ful to be a mem­ber of both the busi­ness com­mu­nity and the Native Amer­i­can com­mu­nity and we are sad­dened by the dev­as­ta­tion and dam­age that the Las Con­chas fire has caused,” said Keres President/CEO Tim­o­thy Chavez. “We feel that it is our cor­po­rate respon­si­bil­ity to help our neigh­bors in Santa Clara Pueblo, espe­cially in this time of need.”