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Why You Still Live with Higher Flood Risk than Necessary

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:13:00 +0000

7/18/2025 – Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) under the county’s current Democratic leadership has not put a high priority on improving flood risk in the San Jacinto watershed. That’s despite the fact that the San Jacinto had the highest flooding in Harris County during Harvey. And almost half of the deaths due to Harvey […]

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Latest Spending Trends: Flood-Mitigation Quarterly Update

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:24:39 +0000

Numbers for Harris County Flood Control District’s (HCFCD) first quarter are in. They show several spending trends. Spending Decline Continues They show that the pace of overall flood-mitigation spending continues to decline, though there are signs that it could turn around soon – depending on your basis of comparison. Year over year, the totals show […]

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Nine Crenshaw Flood-Related Earmark Requests Approved by Various House Committees

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:08:54 +0000

U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw made nine flood-related earmark requests for 2024. And according to his office, several House of Representative Committees have approved all nine. They include: A committee also approved a request by Crenshaw NOT related to flooding – $1.65M for the Montgomery County Active Shooter Defense Training Facility. That means all 10 of […]

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San Jacinto Flood-Mitigation Spending Down 81% in One Quarter

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:43 +0000

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. On 4/22/23, I reported about a drastic slowdown in the rate of Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) spending. Data obtained via a FOIA request indicate that with a few exceptions the slowdown has affected watersheds across the county. Two thirds saw a decline […]

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HCFCD Updates Show Continuing Bond Slowdown

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:18:22 +0000

A Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) year-end spending report shows a continuing bond slowdown. The most recent spending update to Commissioners Court reflects all activity through the end of 2022. The big news to report is that there’s not much news to report. The December update showed that the San Jacinto Watershed received only […]

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All You Need to Know About Flooding Before You Vote

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:53:03 +0000

Before you vote this year, review these two graphs and a map. They should tell you everything you need to know about flooding and flood mitigation in the Lake Houston Area. They should also motivate you to vote if you are on the sidelines. Highest Flooding The first graph shows “feet above flood stage” during […]

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The Real Inequities in Flood-Mitigation Funding

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 03:26:46 +0000

The watersheds where three top Harris County Democrats live are consuming 25% of flood-bond funding. Meanwhile, those Democrats are starving their Republican opponents and supporters alike of flood-mitigation money. Largest Watershed Among Least Funded Harris County’s largest watershed – the 215-square-mile San Jacinto – ranks #18 in flood-mitigation funding per square mile under Lina Hidalgo’s […]

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San Jacinto Flood Planning Group Releases Draft Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:44:11 +0000

The Texas Water Development Board’s Region 6 San Jacinto Flood Planning Group has released the first draft of its recommendations. You can download the full 295-page Volume One document here (executive summary and all chapters). But the vast majority of the document focuses on methodology and research design. For convenience, I’ve extracted Chapter 5, the […]

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1985 Upper San Jacinto Flood Control Study Prophetic, But Largely Unheeded

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 20:07:54 +0000

This morning, I came across a 1985 study by Wayne Smith and Associates for the Texas Water Development Board and the San Jacinto River Authority. It’s called the San Jacinto Upper Watershed Drainage Improvement and Flood Control Planning Study. For an engineering study, it’s exceptionally easy to understand and the recommendations were prophetic. It almost […]

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Comments Due to TCEQ on Sand-Mining BMPs by August 19

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:19:23 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I posted about rules governing the application of sand mining best management practices (BMPs). Now the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is accepting public comments on the BMPs themselves. Think of the difference this way: how/when to enforce guidelines vs the guidelines themselves. More than 90 people responded to the […]

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Greens, Halls Bayous Get 26% of All HCFCD Flood-Mitigation Spending Since Harvey

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 17 May 2021 00:25:02 +0000

Two watersheds that, according to a political narrative, have gotten no flood-mitigation spending have actually gotten the lion’s share. Information, newly available through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request, reveals that Greens and Halls Bayous have gotten 26.1% of all Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) spending. That’s out of 23 watersheds since Hurricane […]

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