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More Dredging Now Officially Included in Project List for Flood Bond
The Plea for DDG has paid off. More detention, dredging and gates are now all officially listed as projects for Harris County’s historic, $2,5 billion, flood-bond referendum. Why detention, dredging and gates? Less in. More through. Faster out. The flood mitigation trifecta. At the San Jacinto Watershed meeting held on July 10th, many people were […]
Clock Starts Ticking on Army Corps Dredging Project
Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced yesterday afternoon that representatives from Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC of Oak Brook, IL, met with Corps’ contracting and project managers for a pre-construction conference. The meeting finalized project requirements for the $69,814,060 dredging and debris removal emergency operation and the clock has […]
County Position on More Detention, Dredging and Gates for Flood Bond
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 […]