Today, I received feedback from Harris County on adding “more detention, dredging and gates” (Plea for DDG) to the upcoming flood bond referendum. The good news: Additional dredging, detention and gates will be achievable within the bond. The bad news: based on the feedback, there is still one hurdle to clear: finding partners to share […]
Looking back to the period immediately after Harvey, check out this NASA photo of a sediment plume coming out of Galveston Bay on 8/31/2017. An astronaut took the photo using a Nikon D4 with a wide angle lens from 216 miles above the Earth. Talk about a dredging problem! The entire northern Gulf of Mexico […]
Sand and sediment clog our rivers and lake. “Dredge!” you say. “Not that simple,” say the experts. “Who will pay for it? How much should we dredge? Where will the sediment go?” That’s why we need planning for sediment management. We need to dredge the worst parts of the river now; the U.S. Army Corps […]
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a report this week that shows inundation maps, peak streamflows, detailed flood information, and new flood probabilities from Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey, it says, was the most significant multi-day rainfall event in U.S. history, both in scope and peak rainfall amounts, […]