Yet more drone footage by local resident and videographer Jim Zura of Zura Productions revealed that Elm Grove and North Kingwood Forest weren’t the only areas with flooding problems on May 7, 2019. The low-lying Romerica land is in the floodway and floodplain of the San Jacinto West Fork. A large part of the property […]
This is a letter to the editor from retired Kingwood resident Bill Fowler. Fowler managed real estate property taxes for one of the world’s largest oil companies for much of his career. His home flooded during Harvey. An in-depth analysis of 2018 property tax assessments in one flooded neighborhood shows that flooded homeowners who did not protest their […]
In the School of Hard Knocks, there’s an introductory course called, “Money Has a Short Memory.” Most students fail this free course and, as a consequence, are still paying “tuition” years later. The irony was never more visible than last week. As I reviewed a Houston Public Media Story about how the City of Houston […]
Rains this week were neither as fast, nor as heavy as the May rains that caused extensive flooding on all four sides of Woodridge Village in May. Also, since the May rains, the developer had excavated much more of a crucial detention pond near the areas hardest hit by the May floods. As a result, […]
Houston Council Member Dave Martin announced that the City of Houston and Montgomery County will host a flood claims workshop from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Kingwood Community Center 4102 Rustic Woods Kingwood, Texas 77345 This event is for anyone (resident or business owner) who has: a) suffered flood damages, […]
Wetlands are a natural solution to a natural problem: flooding. Problem is, their name sounds like it’s the opposite – more of a problem than a solution. Wetlands? Get out the mop. Wetlands? Will I need galoshes? Wetlands? Just pave it. Wetlands? We can’t have that. See what I mean? If we named them something […]
Houston Public Media yesterday reported that City Council approved a new floodplain development upstream from the Addicks Reservoir. This is what happens when you pit one person’s property rights against another’s. Engineers and developers say they take precautions to prevent downstream flooding. But still, people downstream flood. Hmmmm. Wonder why that happens? Here’s a pretty […]
Harris County Flood Control District has just completed an update of the Kingwood-related pages on its web site. Flood Control Web Site Updates Include Major updates include: Landing page discusses HCFCD post-flood actions completed through May, 2019. Latest status of dredging project New pictures of channels taken during May, 2019 storms New channel assessment reports […]
In March of this year, Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) announced a project to excavate more than a mile of Ben’s Branch in Kingwood. HCFCD expects to remove approximately 8,600 dump-truck loads of sediment that clog the creek between Kingwood Drive and the San Jacinto River. Current Conditions on Ben’s Branch During Harvey, hundreds […]
Harris County commissioners approved a Kingwood Drainage Assessment Project Tuesday, but not before a 50-minute discussion of equity that had commissioners shaking fists at each other at one point. Cagle Versus Ellis with Kingwood in Middle The battle involved Precinct 4 Commissioner Jack Cagle and Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis. The flashpoint concerned Item 2a14 […]