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Mobilization for the next phase of San Jacinto West Fork dredging is underway. The City of Houston and its contractor DRC (a subsidiary of Callan Marine) are already staging equipment in two places on the West Fork. The program, funded by FEMA, will remove an estimated 800,000 cubic yards of silt and sediment between the […]
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Read MoreHouston’s Resilience and Climate Action report card for 2023 shows how much progress has been made in the last three years. In 2020, three years after Hurricane Harvey, the City of Houston completed a comprehensive, and wide-ranging resilience plan. The latest report card also updates on the City’s Resilience efforts as well as its Climate […]
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Read MoreEarlier this week, contractors poured the first concrete for Northpark Drive expansion. It was for the first of several new outbound lanes at US59. Crews are doing both surface and subgrade work, moving back east towards Chick-Fil-A. Stormwater Retention Basin Progress Elsewhere along Northpark, excavation work continued on the south pond. The twin ponds will […]
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Read MoreToday, Entergy missed yet another deadline in a long series of deadlines to move its power lines to make room for Northpark Drive expansion. On February 6, the City of Houston sent a letter to Entergy, demanding that the company move its power lines out of the City’s right of way within 30 days. That […]
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Read MoreOn 3/7/24, TxDOT, the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ10 and the City of Houston hosted an open house at the Kingwood Community Center to share detailed project plans at a Northpark Phase II Meeting. The informal “come-and-go-when-you want” style of the meeting gave authorities a chance to mingle with residents and solicit their feedback on plans. […]
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Read MoreTxDOT, the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (LHRA), City of Houston and Tax Increment Redevelopment Zone (TIRZ) 10 will solicit public comments at a Northpark Phase II Input Meeting, from 5-7PM Wednesday, March 6 at the Kingwood Community Center. A significant part of the effort to provide an all-weather evacuation route from Kingwood in the event […]
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Read MoreEntergy power poles sit on City of Houston (COH) rights-of-way. The company also runs underground wires in an easement near US59. Yet after years of discussion, the company still has not moved them to make room for the widening of Northpark Drive. Nor did the company comply with a request by the City to say […]
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Read MoreThe Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority/TIRZ 10 (LHRA/TIRZ) Board Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, focused almost exclusively on issues that have delayed the Northpark expansion project. LHRA/TIRZ also announced lane closures beginning Feb. 19, 2024. One Source of Hold Ups Resolved, Another Remains The Northpark expansion project is designed to move more traffic faster and […]
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Read More1/31/24 – At 5:20 today, about the time government inspectors usually knock off work and the sun was setting, I got a tip from a reader. The reader alerted me to flooding on Kings Park Way near West Lake Houston Parkway, adjacent to a new Trammell-Crow apartment complex that Harris County Engineering had cited for […]
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Read MoreHouston District E City Council Member Fred Flickinger announced today that Houston Public Works will lower Lake Houston beginning Sunday afternoon. They expect to complete the lowering before rain starts on Monday. Houston Public Works is actively monitoring weather forecasts. The National Weather Service has predicted 3-5+ inches of rainfall in our watershed beginning Monday […]
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