soil groups - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/soil-groups/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:44:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 soil groups - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/soil-groups/ 32 32 103504436 When Developers Claim No Detention Ponds are Necessary… https://houstonnewmedia.org/when-developers-claim-no-detention-ponds-are-necessary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=when-developers-claim-no-detention-ponds-are-necessary Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:44:48 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=23496 Harris County residents are spending billions on flood mitigation, even as developers upstream claim they need no detention ponds. So are those developers’ claims valid? Maybe not. A ReduceFlooding.com investigation into one found the developer’s engineer consistently mischaracterized soil types in a way that underestimated runoff from the property by 6X to 9X! Understand that […]

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]]> 99120 Colony Ridge Drainage Reports Misrepresent Soil Types, Underestimate Runoff; Many Reports Missing https://houstonnewmedia.org/colony-ridge-drainage-reports-misrepresent-soil-types-underestimate-runoff-many-reports-missing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colony-ridge-drainage-reports-misrepresent-soil-types-underestimate-runoff-many-reports-missing Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:14:43 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=23381 Drainage reports for the controversial Colony Ridge development in Liberty County misrepresent soil types in a way that underestimate runoff by as much as 6X to 9X. As a consequence, the massive development’s ditches and detention ponds are undersized. That contributes to downstream flooding.  In addition, virtually all of the drainage reports supplied by the […]

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