USGS - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/usgs/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:58:48 +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 USGS - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/usgs/ 32 32 103504436 GIS Data Reveals Likely Source of NE Houston Flooding Unrelated to Historic Disinvestment https://houstonnewmedia.org/gis-data-reveals-likely-source-of-ne-houston-flooding-unrelated-to-historic-disinvestment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gis-data-reveals-likely-source-of-ne-houston-flooding-unrelated-to-historic-disinvestment Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:58:48 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=41156 In northeast Houston, where residents and activists frequently chant “historic disinvestment,” I accidentally stumbled onto a much more likely cause of the frequent flooding than systemic racism. It happened while browsing a GIS database with hundreds of layers containing a broad range of information. The instant I saw it, it unlocked a mystery. Tumblers suddenly […]

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]]> 664241 USGS Says One Third of Harris County Now Impervious Cover https://houstonnewmedia.org/usgs-says-one-third-of-harris-county-now-impervious-cover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=usgs-says-one-third-of-harris-county-now-impervious-cover Thu, 05 Aug 2021 22:34:30 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=27562 Did you know that one-third of the area in Harris County now has impervious cover? That Montgomery County had a 57.12% net increase of impervious surface area between 2001 and 2019? Or that 10% of land cover in the Lower 48 states changed during that same period? I discovered these and a multitude of other […]

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]]> 149376 Flood Decision-Support Toolbox Enhanced by State, Federal Team https://houstonnewmedia.org/flood-decision-support-toolbox-enhanced-by-state-federal-team/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flood-decision-support-toolbox-enhanced-by-state-federal-team Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:33:32 +0000 https://reduceflooding.com/?p=23896 The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and the federal Interagency Flood Risk Management (InFRM) team (composed of USGS, FEMA, the Army Corps, and National Weather Service) has enhanced their Flood Decision-Support Toolbox. The Toolbox is an interactive online application that provides maps and data that simulates the extent of flooding and shows historical flood extents. It […]

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