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San Jacinto Flood Planning Group Releases Draft Recommendations

Reduce Flooding — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:44:11 +0000

The Texas Water Development Board’s Region 6 San Jacinto Flood Planning Group has released the first draft of its recommendations. You can download the full 295-page Volume One document here (executive summary and all chapters). But the vast majority of the document focuses on methodology and research design. For convenience, I’ve extracted Chapter 5, the […]

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White Oak Bayou: What A Half Billion Dollars Looks Like

Reduce Flooding — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:54:04 +0000

Since 2000, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) and its partners have spent more than a half billion dollars to reduce flooding in the White Oak Bayou watershed. And they aren’t done yet. Before the flood bond is complete, they will have spent at least $575 million to create detention basins, widen channels and make […]

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Where Flood-Bond Spending Is Going, When New Flood Maps Will Be Released

Reduce Flooding — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:47:47 +0000

On the Harris County Commissioner’s Court agenda for today are two Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) “transmittals.” One will update commissioners on flood-bond spending to date. The other will update commissioners on the progress of new flood maps (the MAAPnext program). They are items 269 and 270 on today’s agenda. Transmittals are reports by […]

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Six Low-Income Watersheds Receive More Funding than 15 Higher Income Watersheds Combined

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:38 +0000

Third of an eight-part series on flood-mitigation funding in Harris County Some people and their representatives in low-to-moderate-income (LMI) watersheds have complained that they get “no” flood-mitigation funding and that the money is all going to richer watersheds. Allegedly, that’s because home values are higher there and thus favor higher benefit/cost ratios (a sort of […]

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