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Triple PG Sand-Mine Lawsuit Slides to Year 7 as Problems Get Worse

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:40:11 +0000

8/14/25 – A State of Texas lawsuit against the Triple PG sand mine that began in 2019 will now be tried, at the earliest, in 2026. Meanwhile problems at the mine have gotten worse. Breaches in their dikes that triggered the lawsuit have recurred. And five pipelines carrying highly volatile liquids (HVL) are now exposed […]

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San Jacinto Flood Planning Group Releases Draft Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:44:11 +0000

The Texas Water Development Board’s Region 6 San Jacinto Flood Planning Group has released the first draft of its recommendations. You can download the full 295-page Volume One document here (executive summary and all chapters). But the vast majority of the document focuses on methodology and research design. For convenience, I’ve extracted Chapter 5, the […]

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The Hand of Sand Miners on the San Jacinto

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:03:37 +0000

The hand of sand miners weighs heavily on the San Jacinto watershed. Not all miners. But many. While exploring the river basin by helicopter last week, the contrast between two scenes struck me: 1) The natural blanket of green in Lake Houston Wilderness Park. 2) Sand mines that lined the banks of the East and […]

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Floodwaters Converging Downstream on Lake Houston

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 03 May 2021 22:23:28 +0000

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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