Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
Since 2000, flood-mitigation spending in Harris County has topped $3 billion dollars. That’s through the end of the third quarter this year. Right of way (ROW) acquisition and construction represent the two largest components of that cost. ROW by itself consumed more than $1 billion and cost almost as much as construction. With saner building […]
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Read MoreAfter writing about flooding daily for nearly four years, I have developed some beliefs about how to reduce future flooding. In the last 20+ years, Harris County has spent more than $2.6 billion on flood mitigation. And I know one engineer who claims it could take another $50-60 billion to fix all of the County’s […]
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — The Texas General Land Office now plans to give Harris County $1.25 billion for flood mitigation and infrastructure improvements.
It w…
Read MoreThis story excerpt is courtesy of our partners at KHOU 11. Click here for KHOU’s full story.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — The two conservative Harris County Commissioners are calling the Republican-led Texas General Land Office’s decision to leave Houston a…
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