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With Grant Deadlines Approaching, Bid Deadlines Are Slipping

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:09:15 +0000

9/16/2025 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) could soon be caught in a time squeeze. Deadlines are fast approaching on hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the Texas General Land Office (GLO). Yet HCFCD is pushing projected start dates for those […]

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HCFCD to Unveil Final Design of Woodridge/Taylor Gully Project on July 1

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:44:37 +0000

6/20/25 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has announced that it will unveil the final design of the Woodridge/Taylor Gully Project in Kingwood on July 1. Based on preliminary engineering, HCFCD applied to the the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) via the Texas General Land Office for a grant of $42 […]

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HCFCD Briefs Community on Last Cypress Creek Major Maintenance Project

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:37:06 +0000

6/27/25 – In a virtual public meeting tonight, the Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) briefed the public on the last Cypress Creek Major Maintenance Project associated with the 2018 Flood Bond. The project name: Cypress Creek Channel Rehabilitation and Stormwater Detention Basin, Main Stem, Batch 5. Batch 5 consists of two smaller packages: Currently, […]

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GLO Releases Status of Disaster-Relief, Flood-Mitigation Applications

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:09:20 +0000

2/28/25 – Today, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) released the status of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) disaster-relief and flood-mitigation applications from Harris County’s Flood Control District and Housing & Community Development Department. The grant applications cover almost $1.1 billion dollars in aid for Harris County relating to Hurricane Harvey alone, which the GLO […]

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HUD’s $863 Million in Limbo Tonight

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:25:14 +0000

1/29/25 – $863 million in HUD funds sit in limbo tonight. Just last Friday, Harris County Flood Control (HCFCD) finally presented its long-awaited list of flood-mitigation and disaster-relief projects to Commissioners Court. They totaled that amount. But by Monday, a series of presidential executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs put the future […]

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HCFCD Recommends Projects for $863 Million in HUD Funding

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:49:26 +0000

1/25/25 – Yesterday, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) released two lists of projects proposed for $863 million in funding. The lists correspond to Community Development Block Grants for Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) and Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). The Texas General Land Office (GLO) administers the funds […]

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GLO, HUD Funding Approved for 7 HCFCD Projects So Far

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:32:29 +0000

11/20/2024 – The Texas General Land Office (GLO) confirmed funding approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for seven Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) projects. In June of last year, HCFCD submitted two projects lists to GLO for $825 million in HUD Community Development Block Grant disaster relief (CDBG-DR) funding […]

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GLO Rebuilds Its 2000th Home in Houston, Harris County

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:52:17 +0000

Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has rebuilt its 2000th home – in Houston and Harris County alone – since Hurricane Harvey. Many more projects are under construction or in the approval process here and in other counties throughout Texas.. GLO rebuilt the home through its Homeowner […]

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GLO Approves $66.4 Million in Regional Mitigation Projects

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 02:38:42 +0000

7/18/2024 – Today, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D., announced the Texas General Land Office (GLO) approved another $66,402,284 in regional mitigation projects. The money will go toward projects that improve roads, water detention, drainage and sewer systems. The projects are within the cities of Baytown, Brenham, Centerville, Charlotte, Corpus Christi, Houston, Jasper, Plantersville, Seadrift […]

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Harris County Changes Proposed Project Lists for HUD Funding

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:20:32 +0000

In a transmittal to Harris County Commissioners Court today, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) updated commissioners on how it hopes to spend $863 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds. Two projects in the Kingwood Area remain funding priorities: Taylor Gully Channel Improvements and Woodridge Village Stormwater Detention. However, the […]

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GLO Reviewing HUD Applications for Harris County Projects Totaling Half Billion Dollars

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:42:06 +0000

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) is currently conducting a final review on more than $498 million in grant applications from Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and Harris County Community Services Department (CSD). That’s out of a total allocation of $1,072,033,863 allocated to Harris County. And that means projects for almost half the Harvey […]

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Woodridge Village Plans Still on Hold, But that Could Change Soon

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 02:07:53 +0000

Back in November 2023, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) terminated its excavation and removal contract with Sprint Sand and Clay. The 2021 contract called for Sprint to remove up to 500,000 cubic yards of material from Woodridge Village. Had the full amount been excavated, it would have more than doubled the stormwater detention basin […]

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Construction Beginning Soon on Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:34:56 +0000

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) will soon start building the new Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin, a large flood-risk reduction project along Cypress Creek adjacent to Mercer Botanical Gardens. HCFCD issued a notice to proceed to the contractor in December 2023 and the contractor is now mobilizing. Combined 512 Acre Feet in Two Basins The […]

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HCFCD Grappling with Inflation’s Impact on Flood-Bond Purchasing Power

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:47:26 +0000

Inflation has reduced the 2018 Flood Bond’s purchasing power. The general rate of inflation during the last five years adds up to 20%. That could potentially eliminate one fifth of the projects in the flood bond. It’s a serious concern for the people whose mitigation projects have been put at the end of the line […]

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Woodridge Village Excavation and Removal Contract Ends

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:04:33 +0000

(Note: Within an hour of posting this, I received additional information from a source familiar with Federal grants and have updated the section on Funding below.) Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and Sprint Sand & Clay have ended their Woodridge Village excavation and removal (E&R) contract. As of Friday afternoon, 11/24/23, Sprint had removed […]

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GLO Suggests Plan to Streamline Flood Mitigation in Harris County

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:30:14 +0000

Citing the urgent need to spend half of a billion flood-mitigation dollars quickly, the Texas General Land Office (GLO) has made a common-sense suggestion to streamline flood mitigation in Harris County. It recommended making Harris County Flood Control District a “direct recipient” (rather than a “sub-recipient”) of the half billion dollars carved out of $750 […]

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HUD Clouds Future of Flood-Mitigation Funding in Texas

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 01:10:09 +0000

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has clouded the future of dozens of Texas flood-mitigation projects worth billions of dollars. HUD has alleged racial discrimination by the Texas General Land Office (GLO), which distributes HUD money in Texas. HUD based its finding of discrimination on complaints by two advocacy groups. The complaints […]

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Some Projects in Flood Bond Likely Won’t Get Done While Others Not in Bond Will

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:29:14 +0000

While speaking to a public meeting of the Harris County Community Flood Resilience Task Force, Scott Elmer, the Flood Control District’s new Chief Partnership and Programs Officer, predicted that some projects in the 2018 flood bond likely will not get done because of a funding gap. Elmer made this remark while discussing a list of […]

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First: Houston, Harris County Both Meet HUD/GLO Disaster-Relief Benchmarks in Same Time Period

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 21:57:25 +0000

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) announced today that for the first time ever since Hurricane Harvey, both Houston and Harris County have each met their benchmarks for expending disaster relief funds in the SAME time period. They may have individually met performance benchmarks before, but never together in the same review period. Both Harris […]

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Harris County Approves $825 Million Flood-Mitigation Project List For HUD/GLO Funds

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:32:25 +0000

On June 6, 2023, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) recommended to Commissioners Court a flood-mitigation and disaster-relief project list totaling $825 million. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allocated the funds to Harris County via the Texas General Land Office (GLO). The projects will require another $145 million in local-match funds […]

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