October 2020 began research on the Army Corps of Engineers plan. So much information is coming in had to link to keep up with it.
Local:
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Houston Stronger Presentation on USACE Buffalo Bayou Interim Study Oct 2020
- Houston Community Plan – Buffalo Bayou Watershed 10-27-20
- Houston Matters Jim Blackburn @ 13:00
- Bob Randall Urban Harvest presentation – Nature’s Solutions
- Katy Prairie Officials-call-on-army-corps-to-rethink-flooding-concepts-in-western-harris-county
- Katy Prairie Conservancy and others have devised a four-pillar alternative plan that they are hoping the Corps takes into consideration as the study continues.
- Work in the upper Cypress Creek watershed including: expanding the Katy prairie; having the HCFCD acquire detention rights on private land through voluntary agreements with landowners; making channel improvements to improve storage along Cypress Creek and South Mayde Creek; and developing a series of smaller reservoirs in upper Addicks Watershed
- Expand the capacities of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs
- Strengthen the dam to ensure no spillover
- Improve conveyance along Buffalo Bayou, possibly through use of an underground tunnel
- Katy Prairie Conservancy and others have devised a four-pillar alternative plan that they are hoping the Corps takes into consideration as the study continues.
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