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After Quitting Time, Contractor Pumps Silty Stormwater into Street

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:21 +0000

1/31/24 – At 5:20 today, about the time government inspectors usually knock off work and the sun was setting, I got a tip from a reader. The reader alerted me to flooding on Kings Park Way near West Lake Houston Parkway, adjacent to a new Trammell-Crow apartment complex that Harris County Engineering had cited for […]

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Montgomery, Liberty Counties Still Have Not Adopted Minimum Drainage Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:25:02 +0000

After Hurricane Harvey, Harris County Engineering examined regulations throughout the region and recommended minimum drainage standards to reduce future flooding in the region’s cities and counties. Harris County even offered to pay the cost of inventorying existing standards and having an engineering firm draft recommended revisions. But almost 2000 days after Harvey, only half of […]

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Montgomery, Liberty Counties Still Have Not Adopted Minimum Drainage Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 18:25:02 +0000

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Harris County Commissioners Reaffirm Need for Minimum Drainage Standards in Region

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:26:04 +0000

On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Harris County Commissioners Court reaffirmed the need for minimum drainage standards in the region. The program called “Fix Flooding First,” was started in 2020 by the Harris County Engineering Department. It is designed to help prevent flooding, not just fix it. The idea: to bring all municipalities and other counties […]

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