The recently completed barrier on Alamitos Creek suffered a major setback in early August when the creek was hit by major flooding.  According to Arnold Atkins, the flood washed out the gabion structure after filling it with dirt, rocks, and debris from upstream, diverting the entire creek, which is still in flood, through the hole in the gabion and down the native creekbed into the La Sierra Acequia a few hundred yards downstream.
This barrier was put into place to protect a population of pure Rio Grande cutthroats …

No one will ever accuse Alamitos Creek of being a destination trout fishery. You are going to come out of a day on the stream with a more bumps, bruises, scrapes and cuts than you will fish. Like a bad golfer, you’re going to spend a lot of time in the trees. On a long cast you might have 5 feet of actual fly line out of the rod. And you better know how to roll cast.

That said, this is an important little piece of water …