Over the weekend, Rachel Taylor, a Lake Houston area resident who lives near the mouth bar sent me the video below. It shows an idle dredge near its starting point. The video, plus reports from boaters, fueled speculation that the mouth bar dredging had concluded. That fact was confirmed this afternoon by Houston City Council […]
Many readers have written to inquire about my lack of regular posting recently. No, I have not been sick. No, I have not been discouraged. And no, I have not given up the fight. But I have been distracted … in a most pleasant way. By the marriage of my son Kevin to Dr. Aylin […]
A new video taken by Elm Grove resident Jeff Miller from Webb Street in Porter shows that the Woodridge developer has not yet begun excavating detention pond N1. The area has been cleared and grubbed since long before the May 7th rain that flooded more than 200 homes in Elm Grove and Porter. This is […]
Construction progress on the Woodridge Village site has nearly ground to a crawl. After: Clearcutting the trees in a development called WOODridge Filling in natural streams Installing an outflow control device before creating detention ponds Filling in wetlands without so much as asking for a jurisdictional delineation from the Army Corps Building large parts of […]
Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) has nearly completed restoration of Taylor Gully between Bassingham and the Montgomery County line. At least one drain pipe still needs to be installed and some dirt needs to be removed. But the drainage ditch itself is looking much better. Taylor Gully Excavated, New Pipe Installed Said Jeff Miller, […]
On July 23rd, the Texas A&M Agrilife Extenstion, FEMA and Texas Community Watershed Partners held a Community Health and Resource Management workshop. Attendees included 29 officials, municipal staff, and stakeholders from Conroe, Patton Village, Montgomery County, Harris County Flood Control District, SJRA, Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District, the Bayou Land Conservance, Red Cross, United Way […]
Secrecy surrounds current dredging plans for the mouth bar of the San Jacinto West Fork. We know that the Corps will finish removing 500,000 cubic yards next week. However… Unkowns at This Time … we don’t know exactly where they are removing sediment, how wide the area is, how deep it is, and whether they […]
Having barely scratched the surface of the mouth bar of the San Jacinto West Fork, FEMA and the Army Corps will pack up their gear next week and call their job done. Last-ditch pleas by the City of Houston, Harris County and the State of Texas to get the federal government to extend its dredging […]
Sam Cleveland, a Houston Police Officer, started working in Kingwood the day Harvey made landfall two years ago. He is now running for City Council District E. Below are some of his observations on flooding, in part, based on his experience as a first responder. Reporting for Duty as Harvey Struck Two years ago, almost […]
Three weeks ago, I posted about a loophole in Montgomery County regulations that lets developers substitute a flood routing study for detention pond requirements. Basically, if developers can show, using outdated and inaccurate information that runoff from their properties can “beat the peak” of a flood, they can avoid detention pond requirements. Fourteen developments currently […]