Last week, the Houston Chronicle and Community Impact both ran stories about Perry Home’s potential sale of the Woodridge Village property. That property has been implicated in the flooding of Elm Grove twice last year. Sources who wish to remain anonymous have told me that Perry does NOT WANT to develop the property. They would […]
Sand mining is turning parts of Conroe into areas that look a little bit (a very little bit) like Bryce Canyon in Utah. Hoodoo Magic On March 6, I flew over the Liberty Materials Moorehead Mine in Conroe and captured this image. It struck me as similar to the hoodoos in Utah’s Bryce Canyon National […]
If the Clean Water Act were still being enforced, we might see scenes like this less often. You’re looking at the confluence of Spring Creek and the San Jacinto West Fork. It has looked like this during random flyovers in four out of the last six months. Clean Water Act Abuses Only after the infamous […]
Triple P.G. Sand Development LLC appears to have violated provisions of an injunction by dredging before its trail and flooding neighboring properties with industrial waste water. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the mine for discharging millions of gallons of process wastewater into the headwaters of Lake Houston last year. On November 25th, 2019, […]
The State of Texas, Harris County and the City of Houston are whittling down the mouth bar of the San Jacinto West Fork – teaspoon by teaspoon. Just kidding; it only feels that way. At the planned rate, the partners will remove approximately one third to one half of the planned 400,000 cubic yards of […]
Houston Parks Board continues making progress on creating a San Jacinto Greenway with a hike-and-bike trail. Their vision: to connect the Spring Creek Greenway to Kingwood’s trail network. They would do that by creating a trail between Hamblen Road and the West Fork. The trail would extend from the US59 pedestrian bridge near Harris County’s planned […]
Five pipelines carrying highly volatile liquids (HVL) through the utility corridor that crosses the LMI River Road sand mine in Conroe have been buried again. Repairs have almost finished. Last Friday, crews were removing construction equipment and cleaning up. This significantly reduces risk to the public from a pipeline leak, rupture or explosion. Erosion Triggered […]
Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the findings of its investigation into the wetlands on Perry Homes’ Woodridge Village property. The Corps said that the wetlands do NOT fall under its jurisdiction. Therefore, there was no violation of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act when Perry wiped out wetlands without first seeking […]
A flyover of the lower portion of Ben’s Branch on March 6, 2020, revealed that Harris County Flood Control has nearly restored its conveyance, even if some sediment still needs to be hauled off. Among Hardest Hit Areas During Harvey During Hurricane Harvey, some of the hardest hit areas in Kingwood bordered Ben’s Branch. Ben’s […]
Greek food lovers in Kingwood received a small, but welcome sign of recovery this week – the community’s first Greek restaurant. It’s called Taste of Greek. And it opened in the shopping center next to the CVS pharmacy on the southeast corner of West Lake Houston Parkway and Kingwood Drive. While the decor is modest, […]