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Lauder Basin Phase II on Greens Bayou Under Construction

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:59:29 +0000

The long-awaited Lauder Basin Phase II on Greens Bayou is now under construction. In May of last year, the Texas Water Development Board announced a $2.2 million grant to expand the basin. Then in September, HCFCD announced that construction would be starting “soon.” Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) estimated sometime in the fourth quarter […]

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Greens Bayou Mid-Reach Segment Reaches 10-Year Level-of-Service Goal. Now What?

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 18:59:44 +0000

In the Tuesday 8/23/22 Harris County Commissioners Court Meeting, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) will deliver the results of a study on the Greens Bayou mid-reach area. The study shows that when the Aldine-Westfield Phase 2 and Lauder Phase 2 Basins are complete, the area will be protected from a 10-year flood (10% annual […]

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San Jacinto Flood Planning Group Releases Draft Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:44:11 +0000

The Texas Water Development Board’s Region 6 San Jacinto Flood Planning Group has released the first draft of its recommendations. You can download the full 295-page Volume One document here (executive summary and all chapters). But the vast majority of the document focuses on methodology and research design. For convenience, I’ve extracted Chapter 5, the […]

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Where Flood-Bond Spending Is Going, When New Flood Maps Will Be Released

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:47:47 +0000

On the Harris County Commissioner’s Court agenda for today are two Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) “transmittals.” One will update commissioners on flood-bond spending to date. The other will update commissioners on the progress of new flood maps (the MAAPnext program). They are items 269 and 270 on today’s agenda. Transmittals are reports by […]

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HCFCD Continues Relentless Expansion of Cutten Basin on Greens Bayou

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:44:45 +0000

Where Greens Bayou cuts across the northwest corner of Beltway 8 and 249, Harris County Flood Control District is expanding its Cutten Regional Stormwater Detention Basin. The $16.2 million expansion will add 866 acre-feet of stormwater storage capacity to the previous 677 acre-feet. That’s enough to lower the water surface elevation by .36 feet throughout […]

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Aldine-Westfield Detention Basin Phase 2 Construction Starting Along Greens Bayou

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:37:42 +0000

In April this year, I posted about Harris County Flood Control District’s (HCFCD) completion of the Aldine-Westfield Detention Basin Phase 1 along Greens Bayou. Now construction of Phase 2 is starting. It’s currently in the clearing phase. The basin sits east of Aldine-Westfield Road at Beltway 8 North just south of Bush Intercontinental Airport. Photos […]

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Phase I of Giant Lauder Detention Basin on Greens Bayou Nears Completion

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:00:43 +0000

Phase I of the giant Lauder Detention Basin on Greens Bayou is nearing completion. The 90-acre Phase I of the project will cost approximately $18 million when complete. Excavation and grading are now finished but landscaping still remains on the to-do list for most of the site. It’s come a long way since I photographed […]

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Changes to ReduceFlooding: New “Funding” Page

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:58:30 +0000

I have made two major changes to ReduceFlooding.com by adding a new page dedicated to “Funding” and removing the “High Rise” page from the menu. High-Rise Issue No Longer Topical, Funding Is Funding is a hot topic at the moment and the high-rise battle is over…at least for now. Even though I removed the high-rise […]

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Lauder Basin: Another Flood-Mitigation Project that Doesn’t Exist According to Some

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 03:35:48 +0000

On Lauder Road west of JFK, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has been building a detention basin next to Greens Bayou. This is another one of those detention basins that doesn’t exist, according to some politicians and community activists. Even though the politicians voted to fund the projects, and the projects are well underway, […]

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Baseless Claims of Historic Racism, White Supremacy in Allocation of Flood Funds

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:15:55 +0000

Members of the Northeast Action Collective (NAC) have falsely alleged “historic racism” in the allocation of flood-mitigation funds. And without evidence, the group also cited “a rising white supremacist movement” in Harris County as a reason to move money from high-income to low-income watersheds “as quickly as possible.” Analysis of historical funding data obtained from […]

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Six Low-Income Watersheds Receive More Funding than 15 Higher Income Watersheds Combined

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:38 +0000

Third of an eight-part series on flood-mitigation funding in Harris County Some people and their representatives in low-to-moderate-income (LMI) watersheds have complained that they get “no” flood-mitigation funding and that the money is all going to richer watersheds. Allegedly, that’s because home values are higher there and thus favor higher benefit/cost ratios (a sort of […]

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Greens, Halls Bayous Get 26% of All HCFCD Flood-Mitigation Spending Since Harvey

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 17 May 2021 00:25:02 +0000

Two watersheds that, according to a political narrative, have gotten no flood-mitigation spending have actually gotten the lion’s share. Information, newly available through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, reveals that Greens and Halls Bayous have gotten 26.1% of all Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) spending. That’s out of 23 watersheds since Hurricane […]

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Three More Major Projects on Greens Bayou Completed Recently by HCFCD, Army Corps

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:46:22 +0000

Tuesday, I posted about three Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) floodwater-detention projects in construction on Greens Bayou. But HCFCD and the Army Corps recently completed three more. All three in the latter category started in 2015 – before the flood bond. Magnitude of Recent Mitigation Investment on Greens Looking at all six (in construction […]

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Construction of HCFCD Greens Bayou Flood Mitigation Projects in High Gear

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:17:45 +0000

One of the largest watersheds in northern Harris County is Greens Bayou. It drains 212 square miles with a population of more than half a million people. It encompasses portions of the cities of Houston and Humble. Greens Bayou and its tributaries have flooded homes and businesses numerous times in the last two decades. Tropical […]

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