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Comment of the Day: Could a Third Reservoir, Up North, Hold Water?
“Make a reservoir or lake north of the city, just west of Humble at the confluence of Spring Creek and Cypress Creek, as well as the San Jacinto River just a bit to the east. This land is still...
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TxDOT’s Alternate Vision for a Buffalo Bayou Canal and Accompanying Downtown...
Remember that North Canal that showed up in Plan Downtown’s maps and drawing last year and included a island in Buffalo Bayou? Well, TxDOT’s latest schematics for its planned I-45 reroute include a...
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Piles of Fill Dirt Now Giving Rise to Lovett Homes’ 77-Lot Neighborhood in...
Hillocks of dirt dot the landscape west of T.C. Jester, adjacent to the train tracks near the end of Shirkmere Dr. where Lovett Homes is now elevating some of the 77 lots that’ll make up its new...
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The Latest Wave of Harris County Home Buyouts, Mapped
Now that a second, $51 million round of FEMA funding for home buyouts has come through, here’s the map of where the latest government snatch-ups are planned, 294 total. As indicated by the red dots...
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Comment of the Day: The Sleepy Streets Harris County Flood Buyouts Left Behind
There is a community close to 290 and Windfern, on Cole Creek Dr. and another near Fairbanks and Hollister on Woodland West. Deep in the flood neighborhoods that were bought back by Harris County...
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Stanley Park Soil-Shufflers Tagged for Jumping the Gun After Mayor Puts...
At last week’s city council meeting, Mayor Turner told residents that the Stanley Park subdivision now on the rise in the 100-year floodplain south of Timbergrove Manor “is currently on hold. I know...
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What’s On The Table in Harris County’s Flood Bond Mega Vote, Starting Tomorrow
Included in the flood control bond package county residents are about to start voting on: $1.2 billion for channel improvements, $401 million for detention basins, $242 million for floodplain land...
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Nearly 100 Meyerland Houses Will Soon Be Up off the Ground
Forty homes total have now been elevated in Meyerland and 57 are currently on the way up, reports Nancy Sarnoff. Their boosters are seeking the same degree of flood protection enjoyed by the 29...
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Sneaking a Peek at the Big Walls, Big Gates Army Corps Could Propose for the...
On October 26, the agency will single out one of the 4 big proposals it’s been pondering for the Texas coast as the chosen one, reports the Texas Tribune’s Kiah Collier. One of them “calls for the...
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Coastal Defense Experts Say Ike Dike Won’t Be Enough Without a Backup Wall
With the public comment period underway on the Ike Dike proposal the Army Corps issued last month, Rice University scientist Jim Blackburn weighs in on the project: “We think that there is too much...
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Army Corps’ First Public Ike Dike Discussion Is Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the Army Corps will hold a public meeting in Port Lavaca about the Ike Dike it proposed last month. The meeting — the first of 6 planned between now and April — will give the agency an...
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Newly-Proposed Statewide Flooding Fund Would Be Sprinkled with $1.2B from...
State Senator Charles Perry filed a trio of bills on Tuesday that aim to create a state-level plan for flood mitigation, to be funded by $1.2 billion drawn from Texas’s $11 billion rainy day fund,...
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