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TLDA Email Details Need to Exploit Immigrants

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 03:48:35 +0000

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

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:28:08 +0000

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 […]

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East Fork Homes Flooding, Another Flood Watch Issued

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:35:03 +0000

May 1, 2024 – Even as East Fork homes are flooding, the National Weather Service has issued another Flood Watch for the region. Monday’s Storm Brings Wednesday’s Flood The stormwater from last Sunday night/Monday morning that’s flooding homes near the East Fork San Jacinto could get reinforcements tonight. Another powerful storm is approaching and will […]

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Wildly Divergent Colony Ridge Population Estimates Pose Planning Problems

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:35:00 +0000

Colony Ridge, the controversial Latino development in Liberty county, has grown at least 50% larger than Manhattan in about a decade. How many people live there? No one knows for sure. Colony Ridge population estimates vary widely. And that has ominous implications for planners. Most of Colony Ridge falls within Census tract 7003.02. The Census […]

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Paxton Slams Colony Ridge with Massive, Multi-Count Lawsuit

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:55:06 +0000

On 3/14/24, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a 48-page lawsuit against Colony Ridge, its owners and affiliates. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court, alleges the defendants engaged in a variety of deceptive practices that violated the: The lawsuit claims that the sprawling community a few minutes northeast of Houston in Liberty County […]

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At Least Seven Investigations Launched into Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:38:31 +0000

Today, Harris County joined the growing list of governmental agencies looking into Colony Ridge. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have already concluded their investigations and filed Federal lawsuits against the troubled developer. On December 29, 2023, the New York Post reported that the Internal Revenue Service, Army Corps […]

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Harris County To Reconsider Colony Ridge Impacts

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:04:22 +0000

On Tuesday, 1/9/24, Harris County Commissioners court will consider a motion by Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey, P.E. to monitor the potential flooding, housing, and environmental impacts of Colony Ridge on Harris County. (See Item 282 on the Agenda.) Ramsey submitted a similar item for the 10/10/23 session of Commissioners Court. The Court took no […]

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DOJ, CFPB Sue Colony Ridge for Bait-and-Switch, Predatory Lending, More

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:55:23 +0000

12/20/23 – Legal woes are mounting for Colony Ridge. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed suit against the controversial Liberty County developer and the companies they own or control. The government filed a complaint against land development companies Colony Ridge Development, LLC and Colony Ridge BV, […]

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Search For Sediment Solutions Should Lead Straight to Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 19:08:22 +0000

Harris County Flood Control, Montgomery County, the SJRA, and Texas Water Development Board are searching for sediment solutions in the Upper San Jacinto River Basin. Their major scientific study includes all or parts of six counties: Harris, Montgomery, Waller, Grimes, Walker, San Jacinto and Liberty – all land draining into Lake Houston. The high-level goal: […]

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Paxton Letter Kicks Colony Ridge Concerns Up a Notch or Ten

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:49:12 +0000

Ten days ago, the entire Republican Congressional Delegation from Texas asked State Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate Colony Ridge, the controversial development in Liberty County. Today, he responded with a scathing letter that kicked Colony Ridge criticism up quite a few notches. Paxton also sent the letter to Governor Greg Abbott; Dade Phelan, Speaker […]

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Recommendations for Special Session of Texas Legislature on Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:35:54 +0000

Today, the Texas legislature began another special session. On the agenda: Colony Ridge, the controversial Liberty County development in so many headlines lately. During the last four years, I have published more than 60 articles about Colony Ridge. I have based them on countless drive throughs, flyovers, and interviews with residents, engineers and public officials. […]

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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

October 8, 2023 – Karma is fast catching up with the corner-cutting Colony Ridge developer in Liberty County. Drainage infrastructure that doesn’t meet Liberty County regulations is fast eroding. And tomorrow, a special session of the Texas legislature will start investigating the embattled development. The special session will focus on crime, infrastructure, illegal immigration, and […]

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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

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New York Post Publishes Gripping Exposé on Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:29:04 +0000

Dana Kennedy of the New York Post published a 2,500-word exposé on Colony Ridge titled “Murders, cartels, squalor: Inside ‘colony’ near Houston accused of being ‘haven for illegal aliens.’” Kennedy spent weeks researching and writing the article. She interviewed the developer as well as residents, neighbors, local officials and law enforcement. Her story includes 27 […]

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Entire Texas Republican Congressional Delegation Urges Abbott, Paxton to Investigate Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:52:19 +0000

A letter dated September 30, 2023, and signed by all 25 members of the Texas Republican Congressional delegation urged Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate numerous allegations related to Colony Ridge in an upcoming special session of the Texas Legislature. The Colony Ridge developer has already launched a charm offensive designed […]

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GIS Data Reveals Likely Source of NE Houston Flooding Unrelated to Historic Disinvestment

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:58:48 +0000

In northeast Houston, where residents and activists frequently chant “historic disinvestment,” I accidentally stumbled onto a much more likely cause of the frequent flooding than systemic racism. It happened while browsing a GIS database with hundreds of layers containing a broad range of information. The instant I saw it, it unlocked a mystery. Tumblers suddenly […]

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History of Heartbreak: A Colony Ridge Chronicle

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:56:41 +0000

I wrote my first post about Colony Ridge in May 2020. Since then, I have written more than 60 about the controversial, Liberty County colonia that’s now 50% larger than Manhattan. Virtually all of them cover aspects of drainage, wetlands and flooding, as well as the development’s impact on people, the environment and surrounding areas. […]

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Colony Ridge Now 50 Percent Bigger than Manhattan

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:18:19 +0000

Recent expansion of the Colony Ridge development in Liberty County means that the controversial colonia is now 50 percent bigger than Manhattan. By advertising exclusively to Hispanics under the name TerranosHouston (translation: Houston Land), the developer has largely managed to fly under the radar of regulators as it rapidly expands. Comparison Of Areas in Google […]

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Damn the Downstream Consequences, Colony Ridge Expansion Continues Relentlessly

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:57:00 +0000

Damn the downstream consequences, including sediment pollution, dredging costs, and flooding. Colony Ridge, the controversial 30+ square-mile, Liberty County development that markets to Hispanics – while flaunting drainage, environmental and fire regulations – is clearing and paving thousands of additional acres. Not even Google Earth can keep up with the developer’s relentless expansion. As of […]

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