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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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July 7, 2021 Reduce Flooding

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

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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June 23, 2021 Reduce Flooding

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

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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May 16, 2021 Reduce Flooding

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

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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April 28, 2021 Reduce Flooding

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

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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April 27, 2021 Reduce Flooding

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

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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