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Flood Bond Meeting Changes Location; Make Sure You Submit Your Recommendations
The Harris County Flood Bond Meeting originally scheduled for July 10, 6pm at the Kingwood Community Center is changing location. The meeting will now be held at Kingwood Park High School on the same date and at the same time. The purpose for the change in venue is to provide additional seating and parking. The […]
Find It Faster: Search Function Added to ReduceFlooding.com
My goal for this website was to create a central repository of information related to flooding in the San Jacinto watershed, especially in the Lake Houston area. But as the volume of information grew, it took much longer to find things. Therefore, I’ve added a search function. Actually, my good friend Stephen McFarland did. He’s […]
Lake Houston Area’s Most Pressing Needs for Flood Bond Referendum
On August 25, Harris County residents will vote on a historic flood bond proposal. Everyone asks, “Will the bond include projects that help this area?” That of course, raises the question, “What does the Lake Houston Area need?” We Must Address Root Causes of Flooding HERE Several factors make flooding here different from other parts of […]
Do Local Sand Mines Follow Best Management Practices?
Note: This is the first article in a series on sand mine best management practices. It focuses on insufficient natural buffers between the mines and the San Jacinto river. Subsequent posts will focus on land clearing, site reclamation practices, and more. A comparison of sand mining actual and best management practices found that performance shortfalls in local […]
The Case for Dredging the “Mouth Bar”
A “mouth bar” is a sandbar that builds up at the mouth of a river where it meets a standing body of water, such as Lake Houston. The West Fork of the San Jacinto has a world-class whopper of a mouth bar. How and Why Mouth Bars Form A mouth bar forms when water in […]