{"id":504567,"date":"2026-01-09T20:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T20:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:59:11","slug":"river-walks-main-channel-and-loop-to-be-drained-starting-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504567\/","title":{"rendered":"River Walk&#8217;s main channel and loop to be drained starting Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio River Walk&#8217;s main channel and loop will be drained January 11-19 for essential maintenance, impacting river activities.<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The main channel and loop of the San Antonio River Walk will be drained starting this Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The maintenance project is regularly conducted to keep one of San Antonio&#8217;s main tourist attractions clean and nice for both residents and visitors. It will take place from Sunday, Jan. 11 &#8211; Jan. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The work is being done by the City of San Antonio\u2019s Center City Development and Operations Department, Public Works Department, and San Antonio River Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The city says crews will completely drain the main channel of the River Walk, as the loop and the extension areas from West Josephine to South Alamo Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the map below for the exact areas:<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__placeholder\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d53579e3-bfdd-4836-947d-b3efb56717c6_16x9.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d53579e3-bfdd-4836-947d-b3efb56717c6_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0\" onload=\"this.style.opacity=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There are no planned road closures, but Go Rio Cruises will not be in operation in either the main River Walk area or the Museum Reach section.<\/p>\n<p>In the drained sections of river, crews will removing sediment buildup and debris, inspecting the channel\u2019s integrity, and making any necessary repairs. The river was last drained in January 2024, according to the city, which didn\u2019t include the draining of the River Loop segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio River Walk&#8217;s main channel and loop will be drained January 11-19 for essential maintenance, impacting river&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":504568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-504567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115867155033370486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}