Five years after Hurricane Harvey, major flood mitigation projects in Houston are still waiting on federal money in order for construction to begin. | via HoustonPubMedia
The Tirz 17 Detention Project, Inwood Forest Regional Detention, Lake Houston Dam Spillway and North Canal Flow Diverson are HMGP projects that have yet to begin.over control of nearly $1.3 billion dollars in federal flood recovery money.
Houston also plans on building two dozen flood resilient multi-family apartments in the next two years that will provide over thirty five hundred affordable units. "Development is still happening in the floodplain. And even though they try to take steps, they're not totally in control of it because runoff from one property, is going to run off into another property," says Shannon Van Zandt, Senior Fellow, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M University.
"We've built about 61,000 acre feet of volume across the entire county," says Alan Black, Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction, Harris County Flood Control. Harris County has completed the Brays Bayou Watershed, which stretches west along the 610 inner loop.
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