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GLO Approves $42 Million for Taylor Gully-Woodridge Project in Kingwood

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:33:27 +0000

10/6/25 – Today, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved approximately $42 million to construct Taylor Gully Channel Conveyance Improvements and a Woodridge Stormwater Detention Basin in Kingwood. GLO also approved six other HCFCD projects today. Projects Approved Today All seven projects are part of a larger group of 34 HCFCD projects in various stages […]

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With Grant Deadlines Approaching, Bid Deadlines Are Slipping

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:09:15 +0000

9/16/2025 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) could soon be caught in a time squeeze. Deadlines are fast approaching on hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the Texas General Land Office (GLO). Yet HCFCD is pushing projected start dates for those […]

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Mercer Basin Illustrates Risks of HCFCD Slowdown for Quarter Billion in HUD Funding

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:41:44 +0000

8/8/25 – The Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin at FM1960 and the Hardy Tollroad along Cypress Creek illustrates the difficulty HCFCD will face as it attempts to build 11 comparable basins in the next year and a half. The Mercer Basin, originally projected to take one year – on an expedited schedule – has taken more […]

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HCFCD to Unveil Final Design of Woodridge/Taylor Gully Project on July 1

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:44:37 +0000

6/20/25 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has announced that it will unveil the final design of the Woodridge/Taylor Gully Project in Kingwood on July 1. Based on preliminary engineering, HCFCD applied to the the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the Texas General Land Office for a grant of $42 […]

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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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GLO Releases Status of Disaster-Relief, Flood-Mitigation Applications

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:09:20 +0000

2/28/25 – Today, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) released the status of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) disaster-relief and flood-mitigation applications from Harris County’s Flood Control District and Housing & Community Development Department. The grant applications cover almost $1.1 billion dollars in aid for Harris County relating to Hurricane Harvey alone, which the GLO […]

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GLO, HUD Funding Approved for 7 HCFCD Projects So Far

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:32:29 +0000

11/20/2024 – The Texas General Land Office (GLO) confirmed funding approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for seven Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) projects. In June of last year, HCFCD submitted two projects lists to GLO for $825 million in HUD Community Development Block Grant disaster relief (CDBG-DR) funding […]

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GLO Posts Six State Action-Plan Amendments for Public Comment

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:37:49 +0000

9/3/2024 – Today, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) posted six state action-plan amendments for public comment. The amendments reallocate remaining money from federal grants for disasters between 2008 and 2019. Includes Disaster Recovery Reallocation Program Each of the six amendments includes a new Disaster Recovery Reallocation Program (DRRP). The DRRP will let the GLO […]

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GLO Rebuilds Its 2000th Home in Houston, Harris County

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:52:17 +0000

Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has rebuilt its 2000th home – in Houston and Harris County alone – since Hurricane Harvey. Many more projects are under construction or in the approval process here and in other counties throughout Texas.. GLO rebuilt the home through its Homeowner […]

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GLO Approves $66.4 Million in Regional Mitigation Projects

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:38:42 +0000

7/18/2024 – Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved another $66,402,284 in regional mitigation projects. The money will go toward projects that improve roads, water detention, drainage and sewer systems. The projects are within the cities of Baytown, Brenham, Centerville, Charlotte, Corpus Christi, Houston, Jasper, Plantersville, Seadrift […]

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Area Leaders Meet with GLO Commissioner Buckingham

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:38:55 +0000

Harris County and the Houston area are receiving $863 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the Texas General Land Office (GLO) for disaster relief and flood mitigation. So, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, GLO Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham met with a group of Lake-Houston-Area leaders to discuss the area’s […]

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GLO Reviewing HUD Applications for Harris County Projects Totaling Half Billion Dollars

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:42:06 +0000

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is currently conducting a final review on more than $498 million in grant applications from Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and Harris County Community Services Department (CSD). That’s out of a total allocation of $1,072,033,863 allocated to Harris County. And that means projects for almost half the Harvey […]

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GLO Announces Bolivar Beach Restoration Project to Protect Highway

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 20:32:42 +0000

On 12/13/23, Texas General Land Office (GLO) Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. announced the approval of Coastal Erosion Planning & Response Act (CEPRA) funding for a Bolivar Peninsula Beach and Dune Restoration project. The beach-restoration project seeks to: According to the GLO, the CEPRA funds – initially aimed at an engineering study – will provide both economic and coastal resilience […]

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HCFCD Grappling with Inflation’s Impact on Flood-Bond Purchasing Power

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:47:26 +0000

Inflation has reduced the 2018 Flood Bond’s purchasing power. The general rate of inflation during the last five years adds up to 20%. That could potentially eliminate one fifth of the projects in the flood bond. It’s a serious concern for the people whose mitigation projects have been put at the end of the line […]

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Woodridge Village Excavation and Removal Contract Ends

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:04:33 +0000

(Note: Within an hour of posting this, I received additional information from a source familiar with Federal grants and have updated the section on Funding below.) Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and Sprint Sand & Clay have ended their Woodridge Village excavation and removal (E&R) contract. As of Friday afternoon, 11/24/23, Sprint had removed […]

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This Disaster Preparedness Video Will Make You Smile

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:25:19 +0000

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has produced a disaster preparedness video guaranteed to make you smile. It features GLO Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, MD, unpacking a disaster preparedness kit with several very young and very cute Texans. The 3-minute video is both informative and fun. Make sure you watch it with your children or grandchildren. […]

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GLO Suggests Plan to Streamline Flood Mitigation in Harris County

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:30:14 +0000

Citing the urgent need to spend half of a billion flood-mitigation dollars quickly, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has made a common-sense suggestion to streamline flood mitigation in Harris County. It recommended making Harris County Flood Control District a “direct recipient” (rather than a “sub-recipient”) of the half billion dollars carved out of $750 […]

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HUD Clouds Future of Flood-Mitigation Funding in Texas

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 01:10:09 +0000

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has clouded the future of dozens of Texas flood-mitigation projects worth billions of dollars. HUD has alleged racial discrimination by the Texas General Land Office (GLO), which distributes HUD money in Texas. HUD based its finding of discrimination on complaints by two advocacy groups. The complaints […]

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Some Projects in Flood Bond Likely Won’t Get Done While Others Not in Bond Will

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:29:14 +0000

While speaking to a public meeting of the Harris County Community Flood Resilience Task Force, Scott Elmer, the Flood Control District’s new Chief Partnership and Programs Officer, predicted that some projects in the 2018 flood bond likely will not get done because of a funding gap. Elmer made this remark while discussing a list of […]

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GLO Announces Regional Mitigation-Project Approvals Totaling $128 Million

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:41:23 +0000

Two pieces of good news came out of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) in two days! Yesterday, the GLO announced that both Houston and Harris County met their respective expenditure goals for Harvey disaster-relief funds. Today, Commissioner Dawn Buckingham M.D. announced the approval of more than another $128 million worth of flood-mitigation projects in […]

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