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Reduce Flooding: Half of FEMA-Funded Buyouts Take More Than 5 Years

11/19/2024 ā€“ The time to fully complete half of all FEMA-funded buyouts takes more than five years from disaster to closeout. The screen capture below was taken from a presentation earlier this month to the Harris County Community Flood Resilience Task Force by Thao Costis, head of Harris Countyā€™s Housing and Community Development Department. The [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: What Can Be Done to Reduce Flood Risk?

Flood-control experts have many tools in their tool chests to reduce flood risk. They include: Iā€™m sure more techniques exist. But those represent the big categories. Complex Decisions Involving Many Factors No one tool works for all situations. And many of the tools that reduce flood risk fly in the face of other human values. [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: Flooded 3 Times in 7 Years in 500-Year Floodplain, But No Buyout

Daniel and Kathleen Moore live with their 8-month old baby near the East Fork San Jacinto in Montgomery County. The young couple desperately wants a buyout after their house on Idle Glen in New Caney flooded three times in seven years. But no buyout is in sight. When they bought the home, they were told [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: HCFCD Spending Slows; More Went to Buyouts than Flood Reduction

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) released its November report on Flood-Bond progress to Commissioners Court yesterday. The report covered through October 2022. I had two major take-aways: The major announcement: the District advertised bids for the construction of a stormwater detention basin in Inwood Forest. The project encompasses property owned by the City of [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: November Flood-News Roundup

Below is a roundup of flood news this week ā€“ seven quick stories. Montgomery County Buyout Deadline Fast Approaching The deadline for the current round of buyout applications in Montgomery County is November 30, 2022. The Montgomery County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management still has money left in a Community Development Block Grant [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: Harvey: A 5-Year Flood-Mitigation Report Card

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey. Many in the Lake Houston Area have asked, ā€œAre we safer now?ā€ The answer is yes, but we have a long way to go to achieve all our goals. Hereā€™s a five-year flood-mitigation report card. It describes what we have and havenā€™t accomplished in 29 areas. So [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: Forest Cove Townhome Complex Ready for Demolition

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has completed condemnation proceedings on the last unit in another townhome complex on Marina Drive in Forest Cove. They will schedule the units for demolition as early as next week. Hurricane Harvey destroyed the units so completely that FEMA made them the centerpiece of a video after Harvey. Since [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: Montgomery County Holding Three Meetings for Flood Victims Interested in Buyouts

Morgan Lumbley, Montgomery Countyā€™s Disaster Recovery Manager, will hold community outreach meetings in Spring, Conroe and Splendora in the next 10 days to explain buyout options for flood victims. See specifics about times, dates and places in the poster below. The primary purpose of the meetings will be to explain FEMAā€™s 2021 Flood Mitigation Assistance [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: TWDB To Vote on Accepting $63.6 million in FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Grants

In its October 7, 2021, board meeting, Texas Water Development Board members will vote on whether to accept $63.6 million in FEMA Flood Mitigation Assistance Grants. The federal funding comes with some strings attached: a $10.23 million local match. For this round of funding, the TWDB selected 19 sub-applications from local government entities. After screening, [ā€¦]

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