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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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Halls Bayou Has Come a Long Way, But Still Has Long Way to Go

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:23:18 +0000

A popular misperception says Halls Bayou has received no flood-mitigation funding. Yet it has received $175 million since 2000. $65 million of that happened since Harvey. Channel widening, stormwater-detention basins and neighborhood drainage improvements have reduced flood risk somewhat, but several factors – including the need for more funding – make mitigation difficult. HCFCD has […]

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Halls Bayou Has Come a Long Way, But Still Has Long Way to Go

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:23:18 +0000

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HCFCD Asks for Army Corps Help with Tunnels, Halls Bayou, Addicks/Barker

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:31:58 +0000

In June 2022, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) pitched the Army Corps (actually the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, referred to as ASA(CW)) for help with three large projects. They included Flood Tunnels; Halls Bayou; and the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs. This leave-behind summarizes the presentation. Setting the Stage The presentation […]

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New Halls Bayou Detention Pond Rapidly Nearing Completion

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 00:39:18 +0000

Along Halls Bayou, HCFCD is constructing a large stormwater detention basin and making channel conveyance improvements as part of Bond Project C-25. The detention basin will reduce the risk of flooding by taking in excess stormwater during heavy rain events and then releasing it slowly back to the channel when the threat of flooding has […]

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How Soon We Forget!

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:55:30 +0000

How soon we forget. Hurricane Harvey was just 4.5 years ago. Since then I have documented dozens, if not hundreds of questionable practices that erode margins of flood safety. It Didn’t Have to Be That Bad Harvey was the largest rainfall event in the history of North America. However, with better regulations and construction practices, […]

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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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Another Massive Detention Pond Going In Next to Halls Bayou

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:52:59 +0000

Construction has begun on another massive detention pond along Halls Bayou. It stretches south from Isom Street to the bayou between Chrisman and Aldine-Westfield Roads. It covers approximately 26 acres and when complete will hold 180-acre feet of stormwater to reduce the risk of flooding. This is just one of 11 projects comprising the Halls […]

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The Future that Houston Envisioned for 1990 … in 1968

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 19:39:35 +0000

1968 … the year that humans first traveled around the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. It was a triumphant time for America and Houston, home of the NASA “Manned Spacecraft Center,” its name at the time. We could do anything, it seemed. And we did. 1968 Plan for 1990 A reader recently sent me […]

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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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HCFCD’s “Frontier Program”: A Collaborative Model for Future Flood Mitigation

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 23:17:03 +0000

Harris County Flood Control District’s (HCFCD) Frontier Program is an effort to avoid the problems of past development in newly developing areas. In the past, making developers solely responsible for flood mitigation on the land they owned likely resulted in small, expensive and suboptimal projects. Often, by the time shortcomings of their efforts became apparent, […]

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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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Halls Bayou Illustrates Cost, Difficulty of Flood Mitigation in Overdeveloped Areas

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:50:25 +0000

Flooding within the Halls Bayou watershed illustrates what happens when development, density, lack of detention and insufficient distance from streams put people and their property in harms way. Instead of protecting a strip of green space near the bayou years ago, developers built right up to the edge. As density increased and developers built further […]

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Four Halls Bayou Detention Ponds Recently Completed; Four More Virtually Done

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 06:02:25 +0000

If you saw the recent front page article in the Houston Chronicle about Halls Bayou, you would think that Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) relegated residents in the watershed to “the back of the bus.” Even before the bond, Halls received four floodwater retention projects, three of which are major. HCFCD is trying to […]

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