flood gates - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/flood-gates/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:55:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 flood gates - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/flood-gates/ 32 32 103504436 City Gets Favorable Ruling on BCR for Lake Houston Gates Project https://houstonnewmedia.org/city-gets-favorable-ruling-on-bcr-for-lake-houston-gates-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-gets-favorable-ruling-on-bcr-for-lake-houston-gates-project Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:55:30 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=36736 During Harvey, 16,000 homes and 3,300 businesses in the Lake Houston Area flooded. Local leaders identified the disparity in release capacities between the Lake Conroe and Lake Houston Dams as one of the contributing factors to the severity of flooding. The floodgates on Lake Conroe can release water 15 times faster than the gates on […]

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]]> 489121 Martin Updates Community on Additional Gates for Lake Houston https://houstonnewmedia.org/martin-updates-community-on-additional-gates-for-lake-houston/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=martin-updates-community-on-additional-gates-for-lake-houston Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:12:15 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=32299 Perhaps no flood-mitigation project has generated more interest in the Lake Houston Area recently than the addition of more flood gates to the Lake Houston Dam. In recent months, as engineers worked on the project’s benefit/cost ratio, information about the project became hard to find. That fueled rumors. But Tuesday night, at the Kingwood Community […]

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]]> 301474 Reminder: Floodgate Meeting at Kingwood Community Center on Thursday, July 8 https://houstonnewmedia.org/reminder-floodgate-meeting-at-kingwood-community-center-on-thursday-july-8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reminder-floodgate-meeting-at-kingwood-community-center-on-thursday-july-8 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:31:17 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=27083 On Thursday, July 8, Mayor Pro Tem Dave Martin will host a pubic meeting to discuss the status of adding more floodgates to the Lake Houston Dam. Preliminary engineering finished earlier this year. In March, the Coastal Water Authority board approved Black & Veatch to begin final engineering. Need for More Gates The Lake Houston […]

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