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Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program

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~ 5 years ago Aug 10, '18 12:31pm

With early voting underway, Council Member Dave Martin would like to make Lake Houston area residents aware that the passage of the Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program is important for the region as we continue to recover from Hurricane Harvey.

Harris County Flood Control District Bond Project List

In the Lake Houston Area, the residents will benefit from projects identified in the communities' grass roots efforts - like dredging of the East Fork, West Fork and Lake Houston Area Waterways (Project ID G103-Dredge), installation of flood control infrastructure on the Lake Houston Spillway Dam (Project ID G103-Gates), and interior channel improvements for channels such as Bens Branch (Project ID G103-Kingwood) as well as in Huffman (Project ID G103-Huffman). Additionally, there are projects in the Little Cypress Creek, Cypress Creek, Luce Bayou, and Spring Creek watersheds that will assist in furthering the reduction of future flooding in the Lake Houston Area, such as sediment control projects (Project ID L100-CYPRESS- ROSEHILL).

It's important for residents to be aware that all watersheds work together, and the improvements made to one watershed benefit the others. With the passage of the Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program, the City and County over the next 10 to 15 years will work together towards greatly improving the regions resiliency. Council Member Martin unequivocally supports the Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program and looks forward to August 25, 2018 as we begin a new chapter in creating a truly resilient City and County.

For more information, please contact Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program Hotline at 713-684-4107.

For early voting locations and hours, visit www.harrisvotes.com/ EarlyVoting/EarlyVot ingLocationsNonIE.pd f

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~ 5 years ago Aug 11, '18 12:18am

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[quote-tag-mismatch]It's important for residents to be aware that all watersheds work together, and the improvements made to one watershed benefit the others. With the passage of the Harris County Flood Control District Bond Program, the City and County over the next 10 to 15 years will work together towards greatly improving the regions resiliency]/quote]

Great post, great up coming vote. ......and it won"t draw flies here....

Trump tweets, anyone?

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~ 5 years ago Aug 11, '18 6:36am

Great post, great up coming vote. ......and it won"t draw flies here.... Trump tweets, anyone?

@Clydepuckett : There's two posts, buddy. And the other one was first.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 11, '18 8:18am

@HumbleGirl :

My bad....sorry. Back to fishing.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 11, '18 8:39am

HumbleGirl : My bad....sorry. Back to fishing.

@Clydepuckett : Forgiven. Now about those tweets.... j/k catch a big one!

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~ 5 years ago Aug 21, '18 12:48pm

Have you all gone early voting?
www.houstonchronicle .com/news/houston-te xas/houston/article/ Tuesday-is-last

@HumbleGirl : sorry, could not find the other post....

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~ 5 years ago Aug 23, '18 6:47pm

Did anyone vote in this? Didn't fema give Houston and or Harris county a bunch of money for this already, flood control? If so, where is it, how was it spent?

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 12:52am

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It's not only the feeding creeks and river that need to be dredged it's most of the lake. Surprisingly much of the lake is less than 10' deep, and the main channels shift regularly. They also want to add gates to the LH dam. Is there a bond for Montgomery County to drain Conroe and build a better dam? I mean it's probably not important because we don't want the more expensive houses on Lake Conroe to flood.

Yes all watersheds are supposed to work together but Lake Conroe was specifically built for water to Houston and surrounding areas and Lake Houston was built for flood control. Two different agencies actually control the levels, which is odd considering both are on the San Jacinto River, but the city of Houston "owns" Lake Houston and that won't change.

Sorry for the rant.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 3:38am

I hope they don't intend to remove all of the beaches from the creeks. Those are premium relaxation spots, very peaceful and scenic.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 5:17am

@Yep : I voted yes. We need the projects completed. Approval of the bond will draw additional federal funding

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New Member
~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 5:17am

@AGLLM : YES

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 7:06am

Please make an effort to vote FOR this project. Lake Houston is a disaster and much needed dredging is a benefit from this Bond proposal!!

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 8:03am

Where are the studies showing what the impact of these projects will be? I can't seem to find them. I want to know the projected impact if a storm identical to harvey hits after they are completed.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 8:07am

There are many places (probably 25 percent of master planned Kingwood) that should have never been developed. If you own a home or business in a known flood area, should the taxpayers pay for that? Instead of trying to rework drainage, why not just restrict development?

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 11:15am

www.houstonchronicle .com/news/houston-we ather/hurricaneharve y/article/Flood
This is something I found in regards to this subject. There is so much info/ non-info out there. I think everyone just has to make up his mind if they can support this bond.
After the flood in 1994 they were talking about dredging Lake Houston? Nothing happened.
I understand that this bond will get us more federal funding, funding for what exactly, more studies that will take a few years?
I totally agree with BusyMommy, that there needs to be more restricted development. Please do not get me started about the Costco in Humble...
There are a lot of different opinions on this subject. At least make up your mind and go vote.

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~ 5 years ago Aug 24, '18 12:58pm

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@BusyMommy : Part of the bond funds will go for the engineering studies before anyprojects are started for the very reasons you asked. HCFCD wants to know what the current capacities of the different watersheds are and what the proposed projects will do to midigate future flooding.

Keep in mind Harris County and surrounding counties for that matter are one giant flood plain with numerous shallow bayous to keep it drained. Over the years we have straightened them and dug them deeper in attempts to keep flooding under control with more people and development coming in. IMO no amount of money or engineering will ever stop a Harvey type event from inundating Harris County. It won't happen our ground is paved over and the bayous don't have that much capacity still we need to do something because that is better than nothing. It may not stop another Harvey but maybe it will stop another Allison.

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