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Equity frameworks were never used to redirect cash from the record $2.5 billion flood bond passed after Hurricane Harvey. A ...
Harris County offers an interactive flood map to help homebuyers assess flood risks. HOUSTON — As the Bayou City dries out ...
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 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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For years before Harris County’s first floodplain maps were drawn up in the mid-1980s, people built homes near its banks. Even today, ...