Texas to Get Nearly $5B in Flood-Mitigation Funding

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Sat, 2018-07-21 00:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Stalled cars and rescue vehicles on a flooded section of Interstate 610 in Houston on Aug. 27. ALYSSA SCHUKAR

CLICK HERE - BiPartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123) - Long Term Disaster Recovery Investment Plan - Construction Account - As of July 5, 2018 (2 page .PDF file)

bizjournals.com - by Olivia Pulsinelli - July 6, 2018

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced July 5 how it will allocate billions of dollars for more flood-mitigation efforts.

Of the allocations announced July 5, the largest portion is more than $13.9 billion for the construction of nearly 60 projects to reduce damage from floods and storms across multiple states and Puerto Rico.

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Orange County, Texas - see page 11 in the 75 page report within the link below. It describes the proposed construction for the levee in Orange County and includes a map showing the placement of the proposed levee.

CLICK HERE - Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay, Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration - Final Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Study (75 page .PDF report)

Orange County, Texas - also see the maps on pages 5-11 and 6-2 in the 278 page report within the link below. The maps show alternate versions of the proposed levee construction.

CLICK HERE - Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay, Texas Coastal Storm Risk Management and Ecosystem Restoration - Final Integrated Feasibility Report – Environmental Impact Statement - May 2017 (278 page .PDF report)

CLICK HERE - Texas - General Land Office - Sabine Pass to Galveson Bay Corps Feasibility Study Re-Scoping Project

CLICK HERE - National Levee Database - Levees of the Nation

CLICK HERE - US Army Corps of Engineers - National Levee Database

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Tue, 2018-08-07 22:35 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?

propublica.org - by Lisa Song, Patrick Michels, Al Shaw - August 6, 2018

. . . Levees have been the nation’s most common method of flood control for much of U.S. history, despite a major drawback: Levees protect the land immediately behind them, but can make flooding worse for people nearby by cutting off a river’s ability to spread over the floodplain — the flat, low-lying land beside the river channel. This is a basic matter of physics and something the Corps has known since at least 1852, when a report it commissioned demonstrated that as levees confine a river to a narrower channel, they force water to flow higher and faster. A levee such as the one at Valley Park, on just one side of the Meramec, creates a traffic-jam effect that forces water higher on the opposite bank and upstream.

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Tue, 2018-08-07 22:56 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Re: Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?

When a levee is built to protect an area against storm surge, it will also be important to consider the effects of water attempting to flow downstream after a rain / flood event such as Hurricane Harvey . . . how will all that rain water behave when it encounters a levee blocking the downstream flow?

Fri, 2019-01-18 09:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux