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West Lake Houston Parkway Development Almost Finished

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:35:55 +0000

12/22/24 – The West Lake Houston Parkway development between Kings Park Way and Upper Lake Drive is finally nearing completion, more than 2.5 years after land clearing began. Construction of the development has been plagued by stormwater control issues. Property Ultimately Owned by Trammell Crow The property has been developed in two phases by Kingwood […]

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Trammell Crow Contractors Still Pumping Silty Stormwater into Street

Reduce Flooding — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:28:37 +0000

The persistent after-hours pumping of silty stormwater from the Trammell Crow construction site into the street drains has been reported to Harris County Engineering for several months now. Despite warnings, the practice continues. The danger: accumulated silt in drain pipes and the river can reduce their conveyance, back water up in heavy rains, and lead […]

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Trammell Crow Contractors Expanding Stormwater Detention Basin

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:17:01 +0000

After a wet winter that saw sediment carried offsite by stormwater on multiple occasions, contractors are finally installing stormwater drainage on Phase II of the troubled Trammell Crow apartment complex on West Lake Houston Parkway and Kings Park Way. Aerial photos taken on 03/18/24 show order gradually emerging out of apparent chaos on a construction […]

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Trammell Crow Contractor Pumped Silty Stormwater into Street…Again

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:46:32 +0000

On Sunday, 2/18/24 at 12:27 pm, Michelle Chavez photographed a Trammell Crow contractor pumping silty stormwater from a construction site into Kings Park Way near West Lake Houston Parkway. The silty water appeared to be routed through a filter bag. Contractors commonly use such geo-textile bags to remove oil, grease, sediment, litter and debris from […]

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Meritage Begins Clearing 40 Acres for 210 Homes, Many Over Wetlands

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:56:19 +0000

Meritage Homes of Texas LLC, a company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, has begun clearing 40.2 acres between Kings River and Pinehurst of Atascocita. The company will reportedly build 210 homes there – 5.2 per acre. Although the new development is far above floodplains, wetlands cover a large part of the first phase. Two Phases of […]

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After Quitting Time, Contractor Pumps Silty Stormwater into Street

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:21 +0000

1/31/24 – At 5:20 today, about the time government inspectors usually knock off work and the sun was setting, I got a tip from a reader. The reader alerted me to flooding on Kings Park Way near West Lake Houston Parkway, adjacent to a new Trammell-Crow apartment complex that Harris County Engineering had cited for […]

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Developer on WLHP Cited for Stormwater Violations

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:57:37 +0000

In response to citizen complaints, Harris County Engineering has visited a construction site on West Lake Houston Parkway three times and issued an unspecified number of stormwater violations. Both phases of the development, Kingwood Residences HTX and HTX II LLC, are owned by High Street Residential, a wholly owned operating subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company […]

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Developer Clearing Land Without Normal Safeguards

Reduce Flooding — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 23:29:26 +0000

Kingwood Residences HTX II LLC is clearing 11.5 acres of land on West Lake Houston Parkway (WLHP) without the normal safeguards to control sediment-laden runoff. In recent weeks, concerned residents have emailed me multiple pictures like the ones below. Normally, contractors would protect storm drains by catching silt with sand bags placed in the gutters. […]

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