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May 5, 2021 Reduce Flooding

TWDB To Vote on Financial Assistance for Improving Taylor Gully Level of Service from 10 to 100 Years

In its May 6 board meeting tomorrow, the Texas Water Development Board will vote on whether to approve financial assistance from the Texas Flood Infrastructure Fund to widen and deepen Taylor Gully. That would increase the “level of service” from 10 to 100 years. The channel would then be able to handle a 100-year rain […]

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May 4, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Family Trapped For Three Days As Floodwaters Ripped Through Sand Mine, Then Under Their Home

Yesterday, I wrote how the San Jacinto East Fork seemed to have re-routed itself through an abandoned sand mine. This morning I got a call from a couple who live near the mine. The woman and her husband had been trapped in their home for three days by the river which is now – incredibly […]

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May 3, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Floodwaters Converging Downstream on Lake Houston

As of Monday morning, the threat to Lake Conroe had passed, but now floodwaters from the rain soaked northwestern portion of the region are converging on Lake Houston. Here’s a roundup of what’s happening where. Lake Conroe Going Down The San Jacinto River Authority reduced its discharge rate to from 9275 cubic feet per second […]

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May 3, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Rampaging East Fork Floodwaters Cut New Path Through Plum Grove Sand Mine

The sign outside the abandoned Texas Concrete Sand and Gravel Mine in Plum Grove tells readers that an RV resort is coming soon. They might want to rethink that concept. Yesterday, rampaging floodwaters destroyed most of the mine except for a small area near the entry on FM1010. Classic Example of Pit Capture The East […]

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May 2, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Update: Lake Conroe Holding Steady, Lake Houston Rising, East Fork Expected to Rise 10 Feet in Next 24 Hours

Last night’s storms in the Houston area did not drop as much rain as the previous night. As a result, the SJRA is holding the level of Lake Conroe steady by releasing 9270 cubic feet per second. However, the level of Lake Houston has risen from 42.85 last evening to 43.46 this morning. That’s a […]

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May 1, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Lake Conroe Keeps Rising Despite Increasing Discharges by SJRA

In the last two weeks heavy rains have slammed the areas upstream from Lake Conroe leading to steady rises in the lake level. Had the lake not been lowered, neighborhoods could be flooding now. Streets in several places are already cut off. More Than Three Foot Increase Above Lowered Level The rain a week ago […]

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April 30, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Two More Rounds of Heavy Rain Yet to Come; Flash Flood Watch Extended Through Sunday

Heavy rainfall remains possible through Sunday. Flash Flood Watch remains in effect until Sunday morning for much of the area. Widespread heavy rainfall along and north of I-10 over the last 24 hours has resulted in rainfall amounts of 2-3 inches over much of that area. Pockets have received 4-5 inches. Those include northern Waller […]

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April 30, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Heavy Rainfall Update and Flash Flood WARNING

The NWS has issued a flash flood warning for portions of northwest Harris County. Showers and thunderstorms have developed overnight in a SSW to NNE band over the region along a line from near Huntsville to Matagorda Bay. Storms will continue to develop and train in this band for the next several hours. Thus far, […]

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April 29, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Heavy Rainfall Potential Tonight, Through Weekend

Jeff Lindner, Harris County’s meteorologist, warns that heavy rainfall potential will spread across the region later today through the weekend. Lake Houston Being Lowered, Lake Conroe Not Houston Public Works is currently lowering Lake Houston by 12 inches, from 42.5 feet to 42 feet in response to the newly updated forecast, which is now forecasting 3 inches […]

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April 28, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Halls Bayou Illustrates Cost, Difficulty of Flood Mitigation in Overdeveloped Areas

Flooding within the Halls Bayou watershed illustrates what happens when development, density, lack of detention and insufficient distance from streams put people and their property in harms way. Instead of protecting a strip of green space near the bayou years ago, developers built right up to the edge. As density increased and developers built further […]

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