12/17/25 – This morning, Houston City Council unanimously passed a motion opposing development on 5,000 acres owned by Scarborough Lane Development/San Jacinto Preserve immediately west of Kingwood at the confluence of Spring Creek, Cypress Creek and the San Jacinto West Fork. In opposing the development, the resolution cited: The resolution, proposed by District E Council […]
12/14/25 – The Houston City Council will vote Wednesday, December 17 on a resolution opposing the proposed 5,300 acre Scarborough Lane/San Jacinto Preserve Development in Montgomery County. Virtually the entire area lies in floodplains and floodways west of Kingwood near the confluence of the San Jacinto West Fork, Spring Creek, and Cypress Creek. The resolution says […]
12/13/25 – On 12/11/25, Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey, PE, introduced a resolution in Harris County Commissioners Court that urges Montgomery County (MoCo) to impose certain conditions on the proposed 5,300-acre Scarborough Development west of Kingwood. Harris County Flood Control tried to buy the property after Hurricane Harvey because they feared that if it got […]
12/11/2025 – This morning, the City of Houston Public Works Department shut down a developer bringing fill dirt into the floodway and floodplain of the San Jacinto West Fork. City regulations prohibit such fill because it raises flood levels for other people and creates a public danger. Ongoing Issue I first reported on this problem […]
A new definition of “Waters of the U.S.” proposed by the Army Corps and EPA would eliminate the federal brakes on development of upstream wetlands, such as those in the Lake Houston Area and Montgomery County. Time is running out to file a protest letter. Less than a month remains before the close of public […]
12/9/25 – City of Houston regulations prohibit bringing fill dirt into floodways and floodplains. Chapter 19 Div. 2 Sec. 19.34 states: Floodways enjoy even more protection. Chapter 19 Div. 3 Sec. 19.43(a-b3) states: And yet this morning, within the space of a half hour, I observed six giant dump trucks bringing fill to a construction […]
12/6/25 – Northpark Drive expansion contractors started boring underneath Union-Pacific Railroad Tracks on 5/17/25. Yesterday, they finally connected the drainage networks on both sides – an early Christmas present for the project team. It also represents a major project milestone in the quest to build an all-weather evacuation route for Kingwood. Pictures of Final East/West […]
12/5/25 – The Gulf Coast Protection District (GCPD) and Texas General Land Office (GLO) announced yesterday the approval of two engineering design contracts for the largest coastal protection effort in the history of the United States – the Coastal Texas Project. The two contracts represent a milestone in moving this historic initiative toward construction. Each […]
12/4/25 – The new 512-acre-foot Mercer Stormwater Detention Basin Project at FM1960 and the Hardy Tollroad is finally nearing completion. The project – originally expected to take a year – took more than three and a half. The impending completion is good news. But the length of time it took is not. It raises serious […]
The Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT), part of Texas A&M University (TAMU) has launched the Texas Disaster Information System (TDIS), a program funded by the Texas General Land Office. Their goal: to enhance disaster resilience throughout the state by bridging the gap between research and decision making. TDIS’s vision is to ingest, store, […]