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HCFCD Briefs Community on Last Cypress Creek Major Maintenance Project

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:37:06 +0000

6/27/25 – In a virtual public meeting tonight, the Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) briefed the public on the last Cypress Creek Major Maintenance Project associated with the 2018 Flood Bond. The project name: Cypress Creek Channel Rehabilitation and Stormwater Detention Basin, Main Stem, Batch 5. Batch 5 consists of two smaller packages: Currently, […]

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Can Cypress Creek Stormwater Detention Offset SJRA Releases from Lake Conroe?

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:09:09 +0000

12/6/24 – When you look at Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) spending figures, it’s clear they are making a major flood-mitigation investment along Cypress Creek. At the end of the third quarter this year, HCFCD had spent more than $190 million on Cypress Creek projects since Hurricane Harvey. That was enough to rank it […]

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Giant Mercer Basin on Cypress Creek Aiming for Completion This Fall

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:42:59 +0000

July 22 2024 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) still aims to complete the giant Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin between FM1960 and Cypress Creek just East of the Hardy Toll Road before the end of this year. Pictures taken 7/22/24 Show Progress Compare these pictures of the Mercer Basin in February this year when […]

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Construction Beginning Soon on Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:34:56 +0000

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) will soon start building the new Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin, a large flood-risk reduction project along Cypress Creek adjacent to Mercer Botanical Gardens. HCFCD issued a notice to proceed to the contractor in December 2023 and the contractor is now mobilizing. Combined 512 Acre Feet in Two Basins The […]

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Third-Quarter Flood-Mitigation Spending Trends, Surprises

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 23:15:15 +0000

Third quarter flood-mitigation spending data is now available for Harris County Flood Control District and its partners. In some ways, the data shows a continuation of previous trends. But the data also contained some surprises. The major findings: Let’s look at each and the implications. Overall, Slowdown Magnifies Inflation Concerns Overall, flood-mitigation spending dipped about […]

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Funding Announced for Massive Detention-Basin Complex on Cypress Creek

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:58:21 +0000

9/25/23 – Approximately 150,000 people live in the 267 square mile Cypress Creek watershed which has severe repetitive flooding. At a press conference this morning, County, State and Federal officials announced $50 million in funding for a massive complex of stormwater detention basins on Cypress Creek at T.C. Jester Blvd. to help protect them. The […]

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Batches 1 and 2 of Cypress Creek Major-Maintenance Projects Completed, More to Come

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:38:13 +0000

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has essentially completed Batches 1 and 2 of Cypress Creek major maintenance projects, according to District spokesperson Karen Hastings. On 9/12/22, I photographed the freshly repaired and reseeded channel K131-00-00 (Spring Gully) at Cypresswood Drive, one of the last projects in Batch #1. See the pictures below. Such projects […]

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Coastal Prairie Conservancy Plan Shows How Preservation Can Help Reduce Flooding

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 16 May 2022 23:18:40 +0000

The Katy Prairie Conservancy (now the Coastal Prairie Conservancy) has preserved prairies for more than 25 years to slow down and reduce floodwaters. Tall-grass prairies and wetlands soak up, store and slow runoff from heavy rains, all of which decrease flooding for residents downstream. But how does that work in practice in specific locations? How […]

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Reality Check: Easy Way to Learn About Flood-Mitigation Projects in Your Area

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 23:10:10 +0000

It’s time for a reality check, folks. I meet regularly with Harris County residents from almost every watershed. Virtually all of them have one thing in common. Rich and poor alike see NO Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) projects in their watersheds. Yet as of the end of the first quarter, out of 181 […]

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I-45 Feeder Over Cypress Creek Is Cattywumpus

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:55:21 +0000

Ever since Harvey, Cypress Creek residents near I-45 have been caterwauling that the southbound feeder road is cattywumpus. For those who may not speak fluent Texan, that first word means “screaming” and the second means “skewed” or “out of alignment.” So on my latest helicopter flight, I flew over the bridge to see what was […]

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TWDB To Vote on Financial Assistance for Improving Taylor Gully Level of Service from 10 to 100 Years

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:04:12 +0000

In its May 6 board meeting tomorrow, the Texas Water Development Board will vote on whether to approve financial assistance from the Texas Flood Infrastructure Fund to widen and deepen Taylor Gully. That would increase the “level of service” from 10 to 100 years. The channel would then be able to handle a 100-year rain […]

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West Fork Still Running Siltier Than Spring Creek

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 02:36:29 +0000

After 3.5 years since Harvey and dozens of helicopter flights up and down the West Fork of the San Jacinto, it never ceases to amaze me. Despite sediment gage readings that say more silt is coming from Spring and Cypress Creeks than the West Fork, the West Fork appears siltier the vast majority of the […]

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