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City Removes 100 Tons of Sediment From Under Deer Springs Bridge

5/28/2025 – The City of Houston Public Works Department just finished clearing 100 tons of accumulated sediment from under the Deer Springs Bridge over the Kingwood Diversion Ditch. According to District E City Council Member Fred Flickinger, the space under the bridge was so tight that crews had to do the work by hand. There […]

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Dredging District Bill Goes to Full Senate for Vote on Tuesday

5/27/2025 – The Texas Senate will consider HB1532 on Tuesday 5/27/25. If approved and signed by the governor, Rep. Charles Cunningham’s bill would create a Lake Houston Dredging District. On Monday, the Senate Local Government Committee approved the bill 7-0 after Senator Brandon Creighton testified in favor of the bill. The Committee reported the bill […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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