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Google Earth shows a massive breach in the southernmost pond of the Hallett San Jacinto West Fork mine in a satellite image dated February 19, 2024. Here’s how the same area looked today from a drone. And here’s how it looked from a boat just hours earlier. A Harris County Flood Control Gage at Highway […]

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April 10, 2024 Reduce Flooding

Reduce Flooding: Hallett Breach Sends Hundreds of Millions of Gallons of Wastewater Downstream

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February 9, 2024 Reduce Flooding

Reduce Flooding: Sand Mine Leaks Upstream from Blocked Drainage Ditch

Just upstream from the blocked drainage ditch at Northpark Drive and the San Jacinto West Fork, Hallett Materials operates the biggest sand mine between I-69 and I-45. The mine complex sprawls across several square miles and has several leaks. During the last flood in January, those leaks likely contributed to sedimentation in the West Fork […]

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January 6, 2022 Reduce Flooding

Reduce Flooding: Price of Progress?

Some say that mining sand from our rivers and flood plains is the price of progress. Pros and Cons Sand has its benefits. We need it to make concrete. And we need concrete to accommodate a growing population. And a growing population creates income for builders, tradesmen and other businesses. But mining sand also has […]

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January 7, 2021 Reduce Flooding

Reduce Flooding: Giant Leak at Hallett Mine…Again

On December 22, I received an email from a Montgomery County resident named Jody Binnion. He lives near the Hallett sand mine on the San Jacinto West Fork and can see the mine from his home. Binnion said that the level of a 170-acre pond had dropped at least 2-3 feet and maybe more – […]

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