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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

October 8, 2023 – Karma is fast catching up with the corner-cutting Colony Ridge developer in Liberty County. Drainage infrastructure that doesn’t meet Liberty County regulations is fast eroding. And tomorrow, a special session of the Texas legislature will start investigating the embattled development. The special session will focus on crime, infrastructure, illegal immigration, and […]

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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

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Karma Strikes Again: Colony Ridge Drainage Systems Severely Eroding

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 17:17:11 +0000

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Damn the Downstream Consequences, Colony Ridge Expansion Continues Relentlessly

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:57:00 +0000

Damn the downstream consequences, including sediment pollution, dredging costs, and flooding. Colony Ridge, the controversial 30+ square-mile, Liberty County development that markets to Hispanics – while flaunting drainage, environmental and fire regulations – is clearing and paving thousands of additional acres. Not even Google Earth can keep up with the developer’s relentless expansion. As of […]

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Colony Ridge Stormwater Detention Basins, Ditches Fail to Meet Liberty County Standards

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:46:55 +0000

Colony Ridge, the world’s largest trailer park, fails to meet Liberty County regulations for the construction of stormwater detention basins and ditches. The development’s basins and ditches routinely lack erosion controls such as grass and backslope interceptor swales. The resulting erosion can reduce the conveyance of streams, increase flood risk and threaten property both inside […]

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GLO Announces Regional Mitigation-Project Approvals Totaling $128 Million

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:41:23 +0000

Two pieces of good news came out of the Texas General Land Office (GLO) in two days! Yesterday, the GLO announced that both Houston and Harris County met their respective expenditure goals for Harvey disaster-relief funds. Today, Commissioner Dawn Buckingham M.D. announced the approval of more than another $128 million worth of flood-mitigation projects in […]

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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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What Does “No Adverse Impact” Really Mean in Drainage Studies?

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 04:38:03 +0000

New developments in many jurisdictions must demonstrate “No Adverse Impact” (NAI) in drainage studies before they can get construction permits. City and county engineers want to know the development won’t harm others before they approve plans. But what does “No Adverse Impact” really mean? It depends on the jurisdiction. Meaning Varies Most jurisdictions require that […]

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Silence: Liberty County, Colony Ridge, Landplan Engineering Remain Mute on Missing Documents

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:40:53 +0000

Wayne Dolcefino titles his latest video “The Sounds of Silence.” It’s about the Colony Ridge problems in Liberty County and the response of officials. On December 26, 2020, I reported about missing drainage reports for the Colony Ridge development in Liberty County. The post also discussed the mischaracterization of soil types in the reports that […]

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Photo Essay: How “Backslope Interceptors” Reduce Erosion, Ditch Maintenance, Flood Risk

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 19:27:25 +0000

“Backslope interceptors” help prevent erosion that can clog drainage ditches and contribute to flooding. Most people have probably seen them, but never paid much attention to them. Nor do they understand can reduce ditch maintenance costs by lengthening maintenance intervals. This photo essay shows what a difference they can make. All three counties in the […]

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Thousands of Acres in East Fork, Luce Bayou Watersheds to be Developed as Part of Kingland

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:25:11 +0000

Back in 2015, Land Advisors advertised 8,673 acres of timberland for sale that bracketed the State Highway 99 extension in Montgomery, Harris and Liberty Counties. They called the property “Kingland” and billed it as one of the largest undeveloped areas left in the Houston area – perfect for a masterplanned community. Subsequently, CH B-Kingland LLC […]

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Liberty County Launches Major Investigation into Colony Ridge Irregularities

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:06:38 +0000

Wayne Dolcefino announced this afternoon that Liberty County Judge Jay Knight has confirmed the county will launch a major investigation into the controversial Colony Ridge Development. Dolcefino is one of the country’s leading investigative journalists. Flooding Concerns at Heart of Investigation The massive housing development between the San Jacinto East Fork and Luce Bayou has […]

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Flooding of the Fifth Kind: By Government Neglect

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 02:55:33 +0000

The National Weather Service distinguishes between four major types of flooding: coastal, riverine, street and sheet flow. After flying over Colony Ridge on New Year’s Day, I would add a fifth: flooding by government neglect. Despite dire predictions for the New Year’s Eve storm, the Plum Grove/Colony Ridge area in Liberty County only got about […]

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Guess Which Way to Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:03:19 +0000

This is the confluence of Caney Creek (left) and the San Jacinto East Fork (right) one day after a New Year’s Eve storm dumped two inches of rain on the area, including Plum Grove and Colony Ridge. The rain turned Colony Ridge, to the right, into a river of mud again. Where the Pollution Came […]

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“One of the Best Land Developers in Liberty County”

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:16:00 +0000

In 2016, one of the owners of the Colony Ridge Development in Liberty County tried to sue the former Mayor of Plum Grove for defamation. The developer alleged that the mayor bad-mouthed his development while making false statements. The judge ultimately dismissed the suit. But as part of the lawsuit, Louis W. Bergman, III, PE, […]

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Rivers of Mud, Part Dos: Wayne Dolcefino Uncovers More Liberty County Dirt

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:08:47 +0000

Wayne Dolcefino, one of the country’s great investigative journalists, has been digging into Colony Ridge, as I have. So when he asked me last week if his videographer could hitch a ride on my helicopter, I said “sure.” New Dolcefino Video Covers More Dimensions of Flooding Problem While I shot hundreds of stills over Colony […]

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Rivers of Mud: Largest Development in Liberty County Openly Flaunts Drainage Regulations

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:12:22 +0000

To prevent erosion that sends sediment downstream, current Liberty County Drainage Regulations specify that developers must: Plant grass on the banks of ditches Construct backslope interceptor swales But aerial photos taken this week show that drainage ditches in the massive Colony Ridge development rarely have grass on their banks. And while criss-crossing the development in […]

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Merry Christmas from Colony Ridge

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 02:00:51 +0000

In my lifetime, I’ve taken more than half a million pictures. I spent four years photographing in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, which was the poorest neighborhood in that city at the time. I’ve also photographed in Appalachia and the poorest parts of Central America. But in the heartbreak department, nothing compares to a photo I took […]

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