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Meritage Pumps Muck from Pond Being Excavated Straight Into Storm Sewer

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:16:37 +0000

4/29/25 – Meritage contractors were caught on camera this afternoon pumping muck from a pond they were excavating straight into a City storm sewer. Such a practice, while not uncommon, can clog storm sewers and raise flood risk for neighbors. The sequence of six pictures below and a video tell the story. They show 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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Meritage Site Overflows Despite Detention Basin

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:36:48 +0000

2/13/25 – Phase I of the new 40-acre Meritage development in Atascocita between Pinehurst and Kings River overflowed after less than two inches of rain on Tuesday 2/11/25. Approximately an inch of that fell in a half hour. While that is a pretty heavy downpour, it still falls short of the 1.43 inches per half […]

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Meritage Finishes Clearing 40 Acres between Pinehurst and Kings River

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:39:10 +0000

Meritage has finished clearing all of its 40 acres between Pinehurst and Kings River. The property is just east of West Lake Houston Parkway and borders Kings Park Way, Texas Laurel Trail, and Pinehurst Trail Drive. The company plans to build 210 homes on the site in two phases. Status of Phases 1 and 2 […]

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Concerns About Fill Height in New Atascocita Development

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:25:40 +0000

10/27/24 – Meritage Homes of Texas LLC has placed an estimated 5 feet of fill above street level in Phase 1 of its new development in Atascocita. The height has raised concerns among surrounding residents, who fear that runoff from the Meritage site could flood them. It’s hard to see the interior of the site […]

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New Kings River Development Gets a Buzz Cut

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:21:15 +0000

Those who have fond memories of boot camp in the military may appreciate the buzz-cut look of Meritage Homes’ new development in Kings River. These photographs, taken on Sunday 3/10/24, speak for themselves. Industrial-Scale Terraforming Contractors have shorn vegetation from the area, except for a thin strip of trees around part of the perimeter. The […]

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Meritage Begins Clearing 40 Acres for 210 Homes, Many Over Wetlands

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:56:19 +0000

Meritage Homes of Texas LLC, a company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has begun clearing 40.2 acres between Kings River and Pinehurst of Atascocita. The company will reportedly build 210 homes there – 5.2 per acre. Although the new development is far above floodplains, wetlands cover a large part of the first phase. Two Phases of […]

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Meritage Homes Sugar Land, TX Communities – NewHomeSource.com

Google Alert - "Sugar Land" — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:23:26 +0000

Meritage Homes has 20 communities in the Sugar Land. View maps and other information about Meritage Homes homes for sale in Sugar Land.

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Meritage Homes to build 865-home community in Conroe

Olivia Pulsinelli — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:55:05 +0000

This is the latest — and largest — of several Houston-area communities Meritage Homes has announced in the past year.

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Meritage Homes to build 129-home community near Katy

Jeff Jeffrey — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:33:39 +0000

Meritage recently closed on a 24-acre parcel of land near the intersection of State Highway 99 (the Grand Parkway) and Westpark Tollway in the Cinco Ranch area near Katy.

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Meritage Homes to build 169-home community in Texas City

Jeff Jeffrey — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:36:37 +0000

The community and model home are scheduled to open in March 2021. Meritage Homes also plans to build community amenities, which will include a playground, a splash pad and a pavilion.

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