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Reduce Flooding: Urgent Help Needed: Lake Houston Dredging District Bill Gets One Last Chance

5/26/25 – The Texas Senate Local Government Committee will hear testimony on HB1532, the Lake Houston Dredging District bill, on Monday, May 26, 2025 – Memorial Day beginning at 9 AM. Most people had given up on the bill and considered it effectively dead for this session. But when I checked this morning, there it […]

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Reduce Flooding: Tenth Anniversary of Memorial Day Flood

5/25/25 – Jeff Lindner, Harris County’s meteorologist, reminds us that today marks 10 years since the Memorial Day flood of 2015. Slow Moving Line of Non-Tropical Thunderstorms In 2015, we had weeks of on and off heavy rainfall over the region. Then a slow moving line of heavy thunderstorms during the evening hours of May […]

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Reduce Flooding: Northpark Update: Drainage, New Subdivision, Traffic Changeover

5/24/25 – Contractors for the Northpark expansion project have completed the first two pits that will let them bore under the UnionPacific Railroad tracks. They call the first pit the “launching pit” and the second the “receiving pit.” Each pit is 40 feet long and 20 feet wide. They should start work on the receiving […]

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Reduce Flooding: NOAA Predicts Above-Average 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season

5/23/25 – NOAA’s National Weather Service forecasters predict an above-average 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season with 13-19 named storms with winds of 39 mph or greater. Of those, NWS forecasts 6-10 to become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 3-5 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). […]

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Reduce Flooding: New Subsidence District Report Shows Improvements, Challenges

5/22/25 – The Harris-Galveston Subsidence District released its 2024 Annual Groundwater Report last week. The document represents a sort of scientifically graded report card for the District. It shows that serious subsidence problems remain in fast growing areas where regulations have yet to be fully phased in. But it also shows that subsidence has decreased […]

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Reduce Flooding: Doom Loops and Virtuous Cycles in Flooding

5/19/25 – In public-policy discussions, doom loops are self-reinforcing negative events or policies that lead to a downward spiral. Example: High crime rates force residents to move to safer neighborhoods. Then property values decline. The police get less money to patrol. And that leads to more crime. The area spirals downward. Negative vs. Positive Cycles […]

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Reduce Flooding: Legislative Roundup: Dredging, Mining, Permitting, Funding

5/18/25 – Here’s a legislative roundup that includes bills which address dredging, mining, permitting of new developments, and funding of flood mitigation. With only two weeks left in the session, it appears that several bills important to the Lake Houston Area have died in committee including a bill to fund long-term dredging. Left on the […]

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Reduce Flooding: Northpark Contractors Start Boring Under Railroad Tracks

5/17/25 – Contractors have finally started boring under UnionPacific Railroad (UPRR) tracks to connect Northpark drainage east and west of Loop 494. That crucial connection is a key to beginning many other parts of the Northpark expansion project. Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority first contacted UPRR about running Northpark drainage under their tracks ten years ago. […]

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Reduce Flooding: HCFCD Announces Kingwood Projects

5/16/2025 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) made several announcements about projects recently that will affect Kingwood and areas upstream. Two Stormwater Detention Basins Now on Bid List The District expects two major detention basin projects to go out for bids soon. The: The clearcutting of the Woodridge Village flooded hundreds of homes in […]

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