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San Jacinto Watershed Received Only 2% of Mitigation Dollars since Passage of Flood Bond

10/27/2025 – The San Jacinto watershed has received only about 2% of the county’s flood-mitigation dollars since voters approved the 2018 Flood Bond. And yet, the San Jacinto watershed: Yet whether you look at total dollars spent or construction dollars, the 2% figure remains. San Jacinto Watershed Receives Less than $5 Million Per Year in […]

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2025 Q3 HCFCD Spending Figures Show Continuing Decline

10/7/2025 – Newly posted spending figures on the Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) website for the third quarter of 2025 show a continuing slowdown in spending. Last quarter, HCFCD spending fell below where we started after the flood-bond election in 2018 … almost to a quarter of what it was at the peak under […]

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FAQs About Water Propositions on November Ballot

9/27/25 – The information below comes from a Texas Water Development Board newsletter pertaining to water supply funding propositions on the November Ballot. Buried within them are some rules that could also benefit flood mitigation. I am reprinting the newsletter verbatim. Proposition 4 and Texas Water Fund Frequently Asked Questions Proposition 4 will be on […]

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Winters Bayou Project Might Reduce Flooding, Increase Water Supply

According to ChatGPT, the 2025 Texas legislature this year devoted 2.7 times more money to increasing water supply than to mitigating flooding. The water-supply funding aims to keep Texas growing, even as large sections of the state struggle with water shortages, drought, aquifer depletion and subsidence. Dual-Purpose Funding But some of the money allocated by […]

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