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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District opened three dredging bids today and announced that RLB Contracting, Inc., was the apparent low bidder in the amount of $33,988,050.00 for emergency dredging of the West Fork of the San Jacinto River. Scope and Duration of Project “This emergency project funded by FEMA involves the removal […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers extended the bid deadline again for its West Fork Emergency Dredging Project. The new bid deadline is Friday, June 22, 2018. Discussions with potential vendors caused the delay for the FEMA funded project as both vendors and the Corps tried to nail down the exact volume of sediment to […]