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Reduce Flooding: Northpark Expansion Update, Still No Sign of Entergy

In the last three weeks, the Northpark expansion project has made slow, but steady progress, despite the fact that Entergy still has not moved any power poles or its transformer. For the moment, contractors seem to be working around the absentee utility issues, which have lingered for four years. The bulk of activity has focused […]

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Reduce Flooding: Entergy Ignores City Deadline to Move Northpark Power Lines

Today, Entergy missed yet another deadline in a long series of deadlines to move its power lines to make room for Northpark Drive expansion. On February 6, the City of Houston sent a letter to Entergy, demanding that the company move its power lines out of the City’s right of way within 30 days. That […]

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Reduce Flooding: Reminder: Northpark Phase II Input Meeting Wednesday, 5-7 PM

TxDOT, the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (LHRA), City of Houston and Tax Increment Redevelopment Zone (TIRZ) 10 will solicit public comments at a Northpark Phase II Input Meeting, from 5-7PM Wednesday, March 6 at the Kingwood Community Center. A significant part of the effort to provide an all-weather evacuation route from Kingwood in the event […]

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Reduce Flooding: Contractors Clearing South Side of Northpark Entry at US59

October 2, 2023 – Contractor have finished clearing the north side of Kingwood’s Northpark entry last week. Now they have shifted their focus to the south side to make room for two stormwater retention basins that will double as decorative lakes. TxDoT requires the basins to catch extra runoff caused by widening of the road. […]

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Reduce Flooding: Deeper Dive into Northpark Expansion, Drainage Plans

On 7/27/23, I interviewed Ralph De Leon, Northpark project coordinator for the Lake Houston Redevelopment Authority (TIRZ 10) and Kevin Perkins, a project manager for HNTB, one of the contractors on the job. The discussion covered both the eastern and western phases of the project from Woodland Hills Drive on the east to US59 and […]

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Reduce Flooding: Northpark Drive Expansion Begins in Earnest

After what turned out to be a ceremonial groundbreaking on 4/13/23, the Northpark Drive expansion project appears to have started in earnest today, 7/25/2023. Northpark is a vital evacuation route for tens of thousands of Kingwood and Porter residents during floods. Cones and Culvert Line Northpark Center Ditch Traffic cones line the center ditch between […]

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