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Harris County offers an interactive flood map to help homebuyers assess flood risks. HOUSTON — As the Bayou City dries out from the latest round of heavy rain, experts are reminding residents and ...
The new floodplain maps for Harris County — originally set to be released in late 2022, but now expected in late this summer at the earliest — will be FEMA's first maps to depict urban flooding.
A massive overhaul of Harris County's floodplain maps has been in the works for years, but its release to the public remains uncertain over a year after its projected release date.
Harris County's flood plain maps will be thoroughly updated for the first time in nearly three decades, officials announced Wednesday. The three-year, $16.5 million project was prompted by June's ...
Harris County says it has run out of money to fully fund flood control projects. They were promised in a 2018 bond.
Harris County has earmarked $14.5 million for updated flood plain maps more than a year after deluges from Hurricane Harvey swamped parts of Houston.
Harris County maps have not been overhauled since 2007. News. ... On the new maps, Harris County's 100-year floodplain is expected to increase from around 150,000 acres to 200,000 acres, ...
Equity frameworks were never used to redirect cash from the record $2.5 billion flood bond passed after Hurricane Harvey. A Thursday decision changed that.
An environmental group's lawsuit threatens to derail, at least temporarily, the five-year remapping of Harris County's flood plains, and rhetoric is rising on both sides. Although the Sierra Club ...
The next flood threat will come with warning. A system of gages mix radar and shoreline equipment along every Harris County Bayou and creek to measure water levels and feed the data to map makers ...
KINGWOOD, Texas (KTRK) -- Some Kingwood neighbors believe a new Harris County flood map is misleading and are worried about what it could mean for future flood mitigation projects.
HARRIS COUNTY - A Flood Advisory has ended for Harris County as storms lighten up across the area. The Flood Advisory expired ...