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Perhaps no flood-mitigation project has generated more interest in the Lake Houston Area recently than the addition of more flood gates to the Lake Houston Dam. In recent months, as engineers worked on the project’s benefit/cost ratio, information about the project became hard to find. That fueled rumors. But Tuesday night, at the Kingwood Community […]

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April 18, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Progress Report New Woodridge Village Floodwater Detention Basin

A new floodwater detention basin that will ultimately more than double the capacity of Woodridge Village is expanding slowly but steadily. To date, 33,159 cubic yards have been excavated! The pictures below show progress since the start of work in late January. Photos showing Progress Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) announced the project on 11/24/2021. […]

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April 16, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Texas Now Has Flood Disclosure For Renters

Several years ago, a new Texas law mandated flood disclosure for home buyers. Effective January 1, 2022, we now have a similar law for renters. The last legislature added a new section to the Texas Property Code: § 92.0135. But read the fine print. The law has some huge “qualifiers.” Floodplain Disclosure Requirement The new […]

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April 15, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Lake Houston Area Flood Prevention Initiative Takes Position on SJRA Sand Trap Proposal

Bill McCabe of the Lake Houston Area Flood Prevention Initiative submitted this letter in response to the SJRA’s Request for Public Input on its Sediment Removal and Sand Trap Pilot Study proposal. He raises a concern that no one else has so far: The proposal may run afoul of the recently adopted Best Management Practices […]

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April 14, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Editorial: Brain Drain in Harris County Government Compromises Service, Productivity

The high-level brain drain among department heads and their deputies in Harris County Government compromises both service and productivity. An article in The Texan about the fiasco at Universal Services, Harris County’s IT department, discussed the department’s new CIO. A system used by law enforcement, prosecutors, and the courts went down for two days. So, a […]

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April 13, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Review: I Would Have Never Bought This Home If I Knew It Flooded

On April 11, 2022, I read an outstanding guest editorial in the New York Times by Elizabeth Rush, a professor in the English Department at Brown University. The title: “I never would have bought this home if I knew it flooded.” It’s a story about the systemic causes of flooding and common-sense solutions that seem […]

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April 11, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Deep-Time Digital Earth Program Could Revolutionize Sustainable Development

Deep-time Digital Earth is a consortium of international organizations, geological surveys, research institutes and industry. It’s the first “Big Science Program” of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). The group hopes to transform Earth science by “harmonizing global, Deep-time Digital Earth data, and sharing global geoscience knowledge. Massive Data Integration Effort Think of this […]

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April 10, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Laurel Springs RV Park Prohibits Photography of Permit Violations

The media-savvy think tank that owns the Laurel Springs RV Resort has finally figured out a way to cover up permit violations from neighbors who complain to the City of Houston, Harris County and the State of Texas. They’ve simply put up signs prohibiting photography that threaten prosecution. And they’ve installed slats in their chain-link […]

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April 9, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Bayou Land Conservancy Raises Concerns About SJRA Sand Trap Proposal

The Bayou Land Conservancy has added its voice to those raising concerns about the SJRA’s sand trap proposal for the San Jacinto River watershed. The pilot project began out of a desire to reduce sediment buildup in the mouth bar of the West Fork. But it has morphed into something very different – a trench […]

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April 8, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Get Ready for Above-Average Hurricane Season

Researchers at Colorado State University indicate that we should get ready for an above average hurricane season in 2022. They say Texas in particular has the following chances of a named storm, hurricane or major hurricane tracking within 50 miles of the coast this year: 80% for a named storm 54% for a hurricane 25% […]

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