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The Northpark Drive Expansion Project struck oil this week. But this was no Jed-Clampett moment. Oil in the context of a construction project is not good. Workers discovered what appears to be oil dumped some years ago on the site of what will become the north pond at the 59 entrance to Kingwood. Ralph De […]
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Read MoreFEMA, USGS, and the National Weather Service (NWS) all have posted stories about floods that often follow fires. But WHY do they? This NWS graphic tells the story. About the Danger NWS cautions that wildfires can leave lasting effects on the landscape and create a heightened risk of flooding for years. Locations downhill and downstream […]
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Read MoreColony Ridge taught the world about karma on Thursday, October 5, 2023. The development’s main entrance flooded during a meeting of legislators. The purpose of the meeting: to convince legislators that the development wasn’t as bad as media reports. In eastern religions, karma is when a person’s actions decide his/her future. Think of cause and […]
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Read MoreWe have two tropical systems in the Atlantic this morning – Hurricane Lee and Tropical Storm Margo which is projected to intensify into a hurricane by tomorrow. I love looking at the satellite imagery of earth on the National Hurricane Center website. It lets you verify all the complex descriptions of weather developments. And this […]
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Read MoreSugar Land Mobility Master Plan Targets Microtransit, Connectivity. The southeast Texas city is responding to community demands for safer, …
Read More… multimodal communities by reducing the amount of land devoted to roadways … Close-up of silos with Imperial Sugar logo in Sugar Land, Texas …
Read MoreOn August 28, 2023, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) published two lists of projects that it will advertise in the next year. The first contains upcoming HCFCD projects going out for construction bids. The second contains requests for qualifications and proposals (RFQs and RFPs) for engineering designs and studies. Of the 50 total projects […]
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Read MoreMontgomery County has just finished an Upper Taylor Gully clean out that will restore the conveyance in the channel which had become totally blocked. The new commissioner in Montgomery County Precinct 4, Matt Gray, has adopted a much more active and collaborative role in flood mitigation than his predecessor. Commissioner Gray’s crews inspected Taylor Gully […]
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Read MoreBy Jeff Lindner, Harris County Flood Control District’s Director Hydrologic Operations Division/Meteorologist, with a few minor edits for a non-technical audience. There have been many comparisons of this summer to that of 2011 with respect to the heat and drought. Below, see the comparison of drought, water supply storage, and heat between 2011 and 2023. […]
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Read More8/21/23 (9 AM CDT) – Three named storms have formed in the Atlantic in two days and we will likely get fourth (in the Gulf of Mexico) today or tomorrow. Tropical storms Emily and Gert formed in the Atlantic yesterday (8/20/23). Gert formed overnight. And a fourth disturbance barreling across the Gulf of Mexico toward […]
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