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New Plans to Develop 5,316 Acres West of Kingwood Mostly in Floodplains, Floodways

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:02:48 +0000

10/30/25 – San Jacinto Preserve (aka Scarborough Development) presented new plans yesterday to the City of Houston District E Office and Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey, PE, for the development of 5,316 acres most of which is in floodplains or floodways. The land lies where Spring Creek, Cypress Creek, Turkey Creek and the San Jacinto […]

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Dawn of a Disaster: Harvey Remembered

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:36:23 +0000

8/29/25 – Eight years ago today, the Lake Houston Area woke up to the dawn of a disaster. During the night, the San Jacinto River rose to 22 feet above flood stage at US59. It swept several townhomes in Forest Cove off their foundations. And destroyed all the rest for blocks around. Rising floodwaters eventually […]

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SCIPP Research Sheds New Light on Key Elements of Tropical Systems

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:29:02 +0000

8/28/25 – NOAA’s Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) just published its annual report. It includes new research findings on three key elements of tropical systems: a lengthening tropical season, stalling storms, and tropical cyclone size at landfall. SCIPP publishes fascinating reports tailored to the south central region of the U.S. including Texas, Oklahoma and […]

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MoCo Water War Leaves Unintended Casualties

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:12:28 +0000

8/18/25 – The Montgomery County (MoCo) water war has produced a number of unintended casualties in the last decade. They include: Unfortunately, those who profited from excessive groundwater withdrawals aren’t the ones paying the price. Subsidence problems in southern Montgomery County – once thought to be solved by the San Jacinto River Authority’s (SJRA) Groundwater […]

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SJRA, Conroe Settle Lawsuit after Nine Years

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:55:56 +0000

8/15/25 – The San Jacinto River Authority and City of Conroe issued a joint press release about the settlement this morning of their nine-year legal battle over water rates. This press release just came in. I’ve added subheads to help highlight key points. Otherwise, the text between the lines is verbatim: SJRA Directors Unanimously Approve […]

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How Fulshear’s new parking ban impacts Katy ISD, Lamar CISD schools – Click2Houston

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Tags: Fulshear, Fort Bend County, Fort Bend, Traffic, Zoning, School, Parking, Children, Kids, Family, Safety, Schools, Katy ISD, Lamar CISD, ...

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Texas Law impacts windstorm insurance rates | Reinsurance Business

Google Alert - "Brazoria County" — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:42:38 +0000

In addition, House Bill 2517, authored by Rep. Jeff Barry of Brazoria County, exempts TWIA from premium and maintenance taxes. Taylor said both ...

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Lake Meritage Drained into City Storm Sewer

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:51:08 +0000

4/7/25 – Last Saturday, 2.5 inches of rain turned the Meritage construction site in Atascocita into Lake Meritage. But by this morning, contractors were draining Lake Meritage into a City of Houston storm sewer. Close examination of aerial photos shows a series of trenches cut under silt fences to let the water drain from the […]

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Meritage Flooding Atascocita Neighbors

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:42:35 +0000

4/6/2025 – After a little more than two inches of rain in a two hour period on 4/5/25, neighbors of the Meritage development in Atascocita bordering Pinehurst Trail Drive began noticing muddy runoff creeping toward their foundations. Aerial photos taken today show that Meritage and its contractors have made some improvements to control runoff since […]

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Hope Impacts Gets New Location to Better Serve Katy Homeless

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Fort Bend County Warns Residents of Legitimate Sounding Scam Impacting the Katy Area · City of Katy Wins Prestigious Award; Exciting Events Set in ...

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Bayou Land Conservancy Volunteers Protect Nature’s Flood Protection

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:17:02 +0000

12/7/24 – One of the leading environmental groups in the Houston region is the Bayou Land Conservancy (BLC). Their motto: “We preserve land along streams for flood control, clean water, and wildlife.” Last year, BLC volunteers logged thousands of hours maintaining and improving natural areas and trails that help others appreciate nature’s wonders. One such […]

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Impacts of Tropical Cyclone Stalling

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:27:30 +0000

11/2/24 – Numerous academic studies have found an increase in the number of storms with decreasing forward speeds, i.e., tropical cyclone stalling, when comparing recent decades with earlier periods. Meteorologists call the distance that tropical cyclones travel in a given amount of time “tropical cyclone translation speed” or TCTS. They have also found that TCTS […]

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Impacts of Tropical Cyclone Stalling

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:27:30 +0000

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Helene Now a Hurricane 550 Miles Across, Impacts Will Spread Far Inland

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:00:27 +0000

9/25/24 3PM CDT – Today, Helene intensified into a hurricane and it should become a major hurricane before making landfall tomorrow in the Big Bend area of the Florida Panhandle. Some forecasters are predicting a Category 3 storm, others a Cat 4. Helene will accelerate to the north today and Thursday crossing the entire Gulf […]

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Tropical Storm Francine and impacts to SE Texas – YouTube

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... New 81 views · 17:44. Go to channel · Children of missing 61-year-old Missouri City woman plead for help. KPRC 2 Click2Houston New 2.1K views · 5:12.

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What Can Be Done to Reduce Flood Risk?

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:27:41 +0000

Flood-control experts have many tools in their tool chests to reduce flood risk. They include: I’m sure more techniques exist. But those represent the big categories. Complex Decisions Involving Many Factors No one tool works for all situations. And many of the tools that reduce flood risk fly in the face of other human values. […]

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One Man’s Struggle Against Rising Floodwaters, Sand Mines and SJRA

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:05:54 +0000

8/10/2024 – Sometimes Randy Reagan must feel that he has struggled for most of his adult life against rising floodwaters, sand mines and the San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA). He has flooded six times in the last nine years. Still, he’s rebuilding on a lot he bought 30 years ago. But he’s doing it differently […]

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HCFCD Releases Final Report on Hurricane Beryl

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:55:41 +0000

8/5/24 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has released its final report on Hurricane Beryl. The amazingly detailed, fact-filled, 30-page report by Jeff Lindner, Harris County’s meteorologist, covers the storm’s origins, rainfall, storm surge, high-water marks, wind speeds, flooding, and more for locations throughout the County. Every sentence contains nuggets of information that you […]

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Planning a Better, Faster Recovery from the Next Storm

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:43:44 +0000

8/3/24 – Yesterday was a start. Kingwood residents and political leaders met in several areas hard hit by Hurricane Beryl to discuss ways to improve recovery efforts. The idea: to start a dialog about steps that Houston Public Works, CenterPoint, community leaders, and residents can take together to reduce disruptions from future flooding and power […]

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Strong wind and heavy rain impacts Fort Bend County – FOX 26 Houston

Google Alert - "fort bend county" — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:10:51 +0000

FOX 26's Jonathan Mejia reports from Fort Bend County to talk about the weather conditions in the area and discusses the difficulties of getting ...

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