5/1/2025 – My last dredging update was in April. So it’s time for another. Judging by aerial photos, Callan Marine seems to be making steady progress in its San Jacinto West Fork dredging program for the City of Houston. The dredge has moved farther downstream. And the placement area in Huffman next to the Luce […]
4/30/25 – District E Houston City Council Member Fred Flickinger has organized another Median Madness event for this coming Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 8:30 AM to noon. This time, however, volunteers will tackle Northpark Drive medians instead of Kingwood Drive’s. Volunteers from previous Median Madness events have enjoyed the sense of community and seeing […]
4/29/25 – Meritage contractors were caught on camera this afternoon pumping muck from a pond they were excavating straight into a City storm sewer. Such a practice, while not uncommon, can clog storm sewers and raise flood risk for neighbors. The sequence of six pictures below and a video tell the story. They show the […]
4/28/2025 – The pace of Northpark expansion has visibly accelerated since March despite several intense rains. Today, crews were working from one end of the project to the other. See the ten pictures below. Project Manager Ralph DeLeon had this to add. “The Kroger’s driveway opened last week. That location is now complete/permanent with regard […]
4/27/25 – A drainage ditch that runs under Kingwood Drive about a tenth of a mile west of Kingwood High School is blocked. Where the ditch runs through the median, it has become so overgrown, you cannot even see it. Historical images in Google Earth suggest that the City has not cleared the ditch since […]
4/26/25 – Where does Texas get its money and why does it matter? According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau analyzed by the Pew Foundation, the State of Texas received almost as much revenue from the Federal Government as it did from taxes in 2022. That means that cutbacks in federal spending could affect […]
4/25/25 – A company called Ryko has proposed building a 5,500 acre development in southern Montgomery County, immediately west of US59. More than half of their land lies in the floodway and floodplains of Spring Creek and the West Fork. The Ryko property is 20 times larger than the Woodridge Village property, which flooded hundreds […]
4/24/25 – My weird nephew Izzy called again this morning. He was all atwitter about Harris County’s new Climate-Justice Plan adopted by Commissioner’s Court on 4/10/25. And he could barely contain his excitement. The Phone Call from Nephew Izzy “They did it, Uncle Bob. They really, finally done did it?” “Did what, Izzy?” “We finally […]
4/23/25 – At a Town Hall meeting on 4/14/25, Montgomery County Precinct 3 Commissioner Ritch Wheeler implied that Harris County had “approved” a proposed 5,500 acre Ryko floodplain development in MoCo. It did not. Wheeler, who is newly elected, likely misunderstood the nuances of reports and the outcome of meetings his predecessor held. Documents Clear […]
4/22/25 – HCFCD has added Microsoft Power BI capabilities to its website. They let users interactively explore and visualize HCFCD spending by watershed. Data goes back to the start of the 2018 Flood Bond. Users can even sort spending data by: See below. Using those “filters” on the left-hand side of the page instantly reconfigures […]