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June 5, 2024 – The Triple PG sand mine trial, originally scheduled for 2020, has been rescheduled yet again for March 2025 – a five year delay and counting. A new schedule shows the Texas Attorney General lawsuit against the Triple PG sand mine in Porter may go to a jury on March 24, 2025. […]
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Read MoreThe controversial new Royal Pines subdivision that flooded a neighbor four times in two months has finally built a stormwater detention basin. The good news: The basin should capture water flowing from one direction toward the neighbor. The bad news: The height of the berm around the pond could back up water from the opposite […]
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Despite multiple reprimands from the TCEQ and a lawsuit by the Texas Attorney General, the Triple PG mine apparently continues to discharge process wastewater onto neighboring properties. Photos taken on 5/4/22 show those neighboring properties under water despite unusually dry weather and record heat recently. Those same properties were not flooded just days after Tropical […]
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Discovery will soon begin in the Texas Attorney General’s case against the Triple PG sand mine in Porter. The AG is suing the mine on behalf of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). TCEQ investigations documented repeated breaches of the mine’s dikes over a period of several years prior to filing the lawsuit. The […]
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Read MoreAbout a month after it began, the developers of Royal Pines have cleared a swath of trees about 1,000 feet wide and a half mile long. Photos Taken 5/15/22 Clearing Started Before Permits Issued Plans Show 80+ Homes in Pre-Atlas 14 Floodplain The following links will show you the general plan and layouts for the […]
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Below is a quick digest of six flood-related stories affecting the Lake Houston Area. Dredging is a Slow Go Mechanical dredgers are slowly working their way through the channel south of Royal Shores. It connects the East and West Forks of the San Jacinto. Without dredging, the dredging equipment itself would not be able to […]
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Read MoreTwo daredevil sand mining companies, Triple PG Sand Development, LLC and Texas Concrete, have stepped up their efforts to mine sand between pipelines that carry natural gas and highly volatile liquids. AG Lawsuit Filed in 2019 In October of last year, the Texas Attorney General sued the Triple PG mine in Porter for up to […]
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