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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Engineers 20 years ago warned of Houston flooding risk |
| 2017-09-06 |
| HOUSTON (AP) ‐ The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey A report released two decades ago about the Harris County reservoir system predicted with alarming accuracy the catastrophic flooding that would besiege the Houston area if changes weren’t made in the face of rapid development. The report released in 1996 by engineers with the Harris County Flood Control District says the Addicks and Barker reservoirs were adequate when built in the 1940s. But it notes that as entire neighborhoods sprouted over the years around the reservoirs in western Harris County, as many as 25,000 homes and businesses at the time were exposed to the kind of flooding Harvey has now brought. Engineers proposed in the report, obtained by The Dallas Morning News , a $400 million solution that involved building a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel. Arthur Storey, who in 1996 was director of the flood control district, says he’s embarrassed that he "was not smart enough, bold enough to fight the system" and implement an action plan to prevent the damages of Harvey from occurring. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 "a massive underground conduit that would more quickly carry water out of the reservoirs and into the Houston Ship Channel" Hoho haha. You'd have an elevation drop of what, maybe 10 or 12 feet? Plus the Galveston Bay Foundation sued to stop plans that require large flood discharges into the ship channel, because it negatively impacts the estuary. I say we need more crawfish holes. Did you ever put a water hose down a crawfish hole? You're putting water right back into the water table. Nature's own drains. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-09-06 20:03 |
| #4 Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-09-06 15:25 |
| #3 Those are what tsunamis are for Skid or a small size asteroid just in the right spot in the Pacific off the coast? A real Noah moment. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-06 07:58 |
| #2 Should have been the LA swampland instead. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-06 01:27 |
| #1 The silver lining in this cloud is that it should be much cheaper to install this fix now that everything will have to be torn up anyway! |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-09-06 01:07 |