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Reduce Flooding: Is It Safe to Build 7,000 Homes on Ryko Land?

A developer named Ryko has announced plans to build 7000 homes on floodplain land that could be inundated with 7 to 25 feet of floodwater in the next 0.2% annual chance storm. The Houston area has had four such storms in the last 10 years. From a public policy perspective, that raises three questions: Developerā€™s [ā€¦]

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Reduce Flooding: New MoCo Development Being Built on Wetlands in 10-Year Flood Zone

At least part of Madera, a new 1,700-acre development in Montgomery County that straddles FM1314 immediately north of SH242, is being built on wetlands and is in a 10-year flood zone. US Fish & Wildlife Map Shows Wetlands Dot Development FEMAā€™s Base Flood Elevation Viewer Shows Flood Risk Note that this survey shows only about [ā€¦]

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