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100-Year Floodplains Doubling in Size, But HCFCD Won’t Release New Maps

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:59:48 +0000

11/10/25 – The Texas Water Development Board’s San Jacinto Regional Flood Planning Group will meet on Thursday, November 13, to consider adopting a technical memorandum that shows the river basin’s 100-year floodplains more than doubling in size. However, even though the group acknowledges the superiority of Harris County Flood Control District’s (HCFCD) MAAPnext floodplain models, […]

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Developing in Houston’s floodplains (Sept. 12, 2025)

Michael Hagerty — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:00:49 +0000

On Friday's show: Eight years after Harvey’s devastating flooding, Houston continues to develop in floodplains. A recent Houston Chronicle report analyzed who is benefitting and who is not.Also this hour: From Houston supplanting Philadelphia as Americ...

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65K new Houston-area properties built in floodplains since Harvey

Google Alert - "fort bend county" — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:06:30 +0000

Fort Bend County re-studied its major creeks and streams and updated drainage regulations with the new data, according to the county's floodplain ...

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Costs of NOT Preserving Floodplains

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:02:05 +0000

7/29/24 – Yesterday, I reviewed a thought-provoking, academic study co-authored by Dr. Samuel Brody of Texas A&M about the relative effectiveness of three different forms of flood mitigation. Today, I would like to discuss a related topic – the costs of not preserving floodplains. Land in a floodplain is cheap. But the initial cost to […]

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Colony Ridge Buying Up Floodplain Land in Huffman

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 21:37:57 +0000

Colony Ridge Land, LLC, developer of the world’s largest trailer park in Liberty County, is buying up Harris County property in the floodplain of the East Fork San Jacinto. Since the property in the Cypress Point subdivision was originally platted, flood maps changed in 2001 and are in the process of changing again. Most of […]

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