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Reduce Flooding: Some County Department Heads Receive Massive Pay Increases Despite Performance Issues

2/16/2025 – Comparing data recently obtained via a public information request to previous sources available online shows current pay rates and increases for Harris County Department heads. One head now receives more than half of a million dollars per year. Another seven receive more than $400,000 per year. And some pay increases exceed the entire […]

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Reduce Flooding: Mark Your Calendar: Median Madness Round 2, Northpark Closure

2/14/25 – Mark your calendars, Kingwood residents. Two important upcoming events will affect most of you: Median Madness Round 2 and a total Northpark Drive closure lasting 3-days at the UnionPacific Railroad near Loop 494. Here are details of each. Median Madness Round 2 City Council Member Fred Flickinger has organized another vine trimming event […]

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Reduce Flooding: Meritage Site Overflows Despite Detention Basin

2/13/25 – Phase I of the new 40-acre Meritage development in Atascocita between Pinehurst and Kings River overflowed after less than two inches of rain on Tuesday 2/11/25. Approximately an inch of that fell in a half hour. While that is a pretty heavy downpour, it still falls short of the 1.43 inches per half […]

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Reduce Flooding: Colony Ridge Foreclosure Notices Appear to Routinely Ignore Texas Law

The controversial Colony Ridge development in Liberty county, which targets Hispanics and which has been labeled a “foreclosure mill” by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, appears to routinely ignore Texas law when sending out foreclosure notices. Section 51.0075 (e) of the Texas Property Code requires that “the name and a street address for a trustee or […]

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Reduce Flooding: TLDA Email Details Need to Exploit Immigrants

2/10/2025 – An email among a powerful association of real estate developers and mortgage lenders obtained by ReduceFlooding.com details how the group feels the need to exploit immigrants despite criticism of its businesses practices from the both the left and the right. Three days after the Daily Wire wrote an expose about the notorious Colony […]

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Reduce Flooding: Northpark Drive Expansion Update: Life in the Slow Lane

2/9/25 – Northpark Drive expansion has become a bewildering maze of lane switches and traffic barriers where SUVs tango daily with excavators and dump trucks. All of that makes for life in the slow lane … which can actually be a good thing given the potential for accidents. Since my last construction update, contractors have […]

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Reduce Flooding: Kingwood Diversion Ditch Preliminary Engineering Review Released

2/8/2025 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has finally released the full text of the Kingwood Diversion Ditch Preliminary Engineering Review and its supporting files. The report, which was originally due in 300 days took more than 1400 days. When asked why it took so long, a HCFCD representative replied, “Personnel turnover.” The files […]

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Reduce Flooding: Flood Bond, Subdivision Drainage Shortfalls Prompt Harsh Words From Commissioners

2/6/2025 – Fireworks erupted today in Harris County Commissioners Court today over the 2018 Flood Bond and Subdivision Drainage shortfalls. It was a rare display of bipartisan outrage. All four commissioners and the county judge took turns expressing concerns about budget shortfalls. The County Engineer, the Head of the Flood Control District, the County’s Budget […]

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Reduce Flooding: Fireworks Erupt in Commissioners Court Over Flood Bond, Subdivision Drainage Shortfalls

2/6/2025 – Fireworks erupted today in Harris County Commissioners Court over the 2018 Flood Bond and a subset of projects within it called “Subdivision Drainage Projects.” It was a rare display of bipartisan outrage. All four commissioners and the county judge took turns expressing concerns about budget shortfalls. The County Engineer, the Head of the […]

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Reduce Flooding: Cypress Creek Drainage Improvement District Provides Unified Voice for Watershed

2/5/2025 – The Cypress Creek Drainage Improvement District (CCDID) just published its first “impact report.” The report comes about a year and a half after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 5334 – authored by State Rep. Sam Harless – which created the special purpose district to address flooding in the Cypress […]

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