base flood elevation - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/base-flood-elevation/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Wed, 07 May 2025 22:14:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 base flood elevation - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/base-flood-elevation/ 32 32 103504436 Is It Safe to Build 7,000 Homes on Ryko Land? https://houstonnewmedia.org/is-it-safe-to-build-7000-homes-on-ryko-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-it-safe-to-build-7000-homes-on-ryko-land Wed, 07 May 2025 22:14:11 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=50540 A developer named Ryko has announced plans to build 7000 homes on floodplain land that could be inundated with 7 to 25 feet of floodwater in the next 0.2% annual chance storm. The Houston area has had four such storms in the last 10 years. From a public policy perspective, that raises three questions: Developer’s […]

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]]> 950126 Far More Proposals in State Flood Plan Than Funds For Them https://houstonnewmedia.org/far-more-proposals-in-state-flood-plan-than-funds-for-them/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=far-more-proposals-in-state-flood-plan-than-funds-for-them Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:37:02 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=50582 4/20/25 – There are far more flood-risk-reduction proposals (studies, projects and strategies) in Texas’ first state flood plan than funds to finance them. Tressa Olsen, Assistant Director of Flood Planning for the Texas Water Development Board spoke about the plan at a meeting of the Society of American Military Engineers on 4/14/25. Altogether, the 15 […]

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