It’s a minor victory. And it may not actually change anything on the ground. But the City of Houston today sent a signal to developers, who now have to identify flood prone areas on their general plans. The move should eliminate any doubt among bankers, buyers and real estate agents as to whether a particular […]
Note: the post below was condensed and adapted from a longer USGS article. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) records continuous stream stage (height of a river) and streamflow (how much water is flowing) with thousands of gages throughout the nation. But how can they determine flood height where no gages exist? Simple, USGS correlates high […]
Almost 40 years ago, when I moved to Houston, I fell in love with the extraordinary beauty of this City. And nowhere in Houston is more beautiful than the Lake Houston Area. The pictures below show why it’s worth fighting for. Nature in the Lake Houston Area isn’t a place you go to visit. You […]
How do we break the process of building in floodways and then repairing flooded homes with taxpayer-subsidized flood insurance as many as forty times? A 66-page study by Erica Vilay and Phil Pollman, two candidates for Masters Degrees in Public Policy from Harvard, examines the broken buyout process for flooded homes in Houston floodways. The […]
In a court document filed today, Perry Homes LLC has answered Elm Grove flood victims and says the damages suffered by flood victims were their own fault. Last month, lawyers for flood victims named Perry Homes LLC as an additional defendant. (Previously, only Perry’s subsidiaries and contractors had been named as defendants.) Today, Perry Homes […]
Texans for Responsible Aggregate Mining (TRAM) is a statewide coalition of member groups seeking to work with lawmakers, state agencies, and good-faith industry operators. Their goal: to create state standards for best management practices in the rapidly expanding Aggregate Production Operation (APO) industry, and adopt those standards into law. “Our goal is to create a healthier, safer […]
It was a cosmic coincidence. Last week, I was downloading pictures of townhomes devastated by Harvey in Forest Cove, when I received an email by a Kings Harbor resident. She was worried about identical townhomes now under construction in Kings Harbor. The Kings Harbor townhomes under construction are about four miles downstream from Forest Cove, […]
SJRA has applied for a $375,000 grant from the Texas Water Development Board’s (TWDB) Flood Infrastructure Fund to study sedimentation in a six county area: Liberty Waller Grimes San Jacinto Harris Montgomery The City’s of Conroe and Houston also support the effort. Sedimentation Known to Limit Floodway Conveyance Sedimentation in the Upper San Jacinto River […]
The San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA) has applied for a $500,000 grant from the Texas Water Development Board’s Flood Infrastructure Fund to study the possibility of building two flood control dams in the upper Spring Creek Watershed. Spring Creek enters the West Fork and Lake Houston at US59. The watershed extends west from there and […]
Friday, July 10, at 11 a.m., the San Jacinto River Authority Board of Directors will meet in a closed session to discuss pending Harvey litigation with their lawyers and consultants. Special Meeting with No Action on Agenda Items A meeting notice put out by the SJRA says they will hold the “special” meeting via telephone […]