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Final Kingwood Diversion Ditch Study Up for Approval Thursday

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:09:15 +0000

9/15/25 – Harris County Commissioners Court is being asked to approve a contract for final engineering of new Kingwood Diversion Ditch conveyance improvements this Thursday, 2/18/25. See Item 272 on the Agenda. The Kingwood Area Drainage analysis ranked Diversion Ditch improvements as the most important project in Kingwood. That’s in large part because improving flow […]

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Northpark Update: Lane Switch, Paving, Tunneling, Enclave

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:17:33 +0000

6/5/25 – The Northpark Drive Expansion Project has been a beehive of activity recently. Lane Switch Westbound traffic between Loop 494 and US59 will be routed to recently paved lanes on the north side of Northpark starting Friday, June 6. According to Ralph De Leon, Northpark Expansion project manager, “Beginning June 6th at 9pm, Harper […]

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HCFCD Calls Projects Complete that Have Not Even Started

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 01:29:09 +0000

3/10/25 – In the last week, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) launched a new interactive map at the bottom of its homepage. In it, HCFCD calls many projects complete that have not even started. The map supposedly contains the status of each project in the county along with links to more project details. However, […]

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Preliminary Recommendations for Kingwood Diversion Ditch Announced

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:38:02 +0000

On 3/6/24, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) revealed its preliminary recommendations for the Kingwood Diversion Ditch. The recommendations come out of a preliminary engineering report (PER) for the project. And HCFCD is still soliciting public comments. Recommendations from Preliminary Engineering Report HCFCD initially considered three alternative scenarios and dismissed one. It then spent most […]

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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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Pics of Tornado Damage in Kingwood/Forest Cove

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:55:53 +0000

Early Sunday morning on January 9, 2022, an EF-1 tornado touched down along the Kingwood Diversion Ditch between Walnut Lane and Kingwood Drive. It damaged trees and homes on both sides of the ditch for several blocks. By early afternoon, tree crews were swarming over the area, making the streets barely passable. Tornado or Just […]

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Kingwood Diversion Ditch and Taylor Gully Preliminary Engineering Projects Begin

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 19:00:28 +0000

On June 29, 2021, Harris County Commissioners approved two contracts for preliminary engineering on the Kingwood Diversion Ditch and Taylor Gully Projects. This week, I’ve been getting reports of boots on the ground. So I grabbed my camera and went looking for activity this morning. I found a soil survey truck at Kingwood Drive next […]

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Preliminary Engineering Contracts Approved for Two Kingwood Drainage Improvements

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:45:14 +0000

On June 29, 2021, Harris County Commissioners approved two contracts for preliminary engineering on Taylor Gully and the Kingwood Diversion Ditch. The Taylor Gully project includes looking at Woodridge Village in Montgomery County to possibly expand detention-pond capacity there. See more below. Taylor Gully Project Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) awarded Idcus, Inc. a […]

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Three Kingwood Flood-Mitigation Projects on Harris County Commissioners Court Agenda Next Tuesday

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:17:14 +0000

Harris County Commissioners posted their agenda for next Tuesday and it has three Kingwood flood-mitigation projects on it. Preliminary engineering and final design services for improvements to: Taylor Gully Kingwood Diversion Ditch Purchase of Woodridge Village to build a stormwater detention basin in Montgomery County. In case you plan to watch the meeting, all three […]

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