USACE - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/usace/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:28:05 +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 USACE - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/usace/ 32 32 103504436 Equity Myth Buster: “Rich Neighborhoods Get All the Flood-Mitigation Funding” https://houstonnewmedia.org/equity-myth-buster-rich-neighborhoods-get-all-the-flood-mitigation-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=equity-myth-buster-rich-neighborhoods-get-all-the-flood-mitigation-funding Thu, 30 Dec 2021 03:28:05 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=30332 A myth being promulgated in the Harris County Courthouse and certain low-income watersheds these days goes something like this: The FEMA Benefit/Cost Ratio used to rank grant applications for flood-mitigation projects favors high-dollar homes. That disadvantages poor, inner-city neighborhoods compared to affluent suburbs. Therefore, poor neighborhoods get no help and the rich neighborhoods get it […]

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]]> 226502 Three More Major Projects on Greens Bayou Completed Recently by HCFCD, Army Corps https://houstonnewmedia.org/three-more-major-projects-on-greens-bayou-completed-recently-by-hcfcd-army-corps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=three-more-major-projects-on-greens-bayou-completed-recently-by-hcfcd-army-corps Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:46:22 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=25337 Tuesday, I posted about three Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) floodwater-detention projects in construction on Greens Bayou. But HCFCD and the Army Corps recently completed three more. All three in the latter category started in 2015 – before the flood bond. Magnitude of Recent Mitigation Investment on Greens Looking at all six (in construction […]

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