TX04Aggie said:

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Yeah this is gonna suck. Wait till they start i-45 redux on top of that. But the lane shifts already back up west bound travellers down the pierce elevated. My office over looks it and it is a cluster already as of last week.

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Aggie71013 said:

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Is the flooding at this location tied to reservoirs in the Katy Prairie?

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TX04Aggie said:

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Yeah this is gonna suck. Wait till they start i-45 redux on top of that. But the lane shifts already back up west bound travellers down the pierce elevated. My office over looks it and it is a cluster already as of last week.

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Ryan the Temp said:

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TX04Aggie said:

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Yeah this is gonna suck. Wait till they start i-45 redux on top of that. But the lane shifts already back up west bound travellers down the pierce elevated. My office over looks it and it is a cluster already as of last week.

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This further reinforces my view that TxDOT is a jobs program.

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aggiedent said:

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Mas89 said:

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Aggie71013 said:

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Is the flooding at this location tied to reservoirs in the Katy Prairie?

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In part. Katy drains thru Houston in Buffalo Bayou. Jersey Village area up to almost Cypress drains thru Houston thru White Oak Bayou. White Oak Bayou joins Buffalo Bayou at UH Downtown and goes to the ship channel ( Buffalo Bayou )
Cypress area to Lake Houston.
So a huge area drains thru downtown Houston. Think of the Katy reservoirs as retention ponds.

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And it goes beyond just any existing or potential reservoirs. The Katy Prairie was the last great sponge that absorbed rain water. Every acre of land paved over is one less acre absorbing that rain, and instead, it flows right down the I-10/ bayou corridor effecting everything including downtown.

Some key points we need to remember. The idea of preserving large portions of the Prairie and constructing new reservoirs dates back about 70 years. Numerous studies concluded it was needed. Furthermore, the existing dams are considered by the Corp of Engineers , "high risk" for failure owing to 1) structural issues and 2) the increasing runoff from upstream Prairie areas as development progresses.

And so we plod along with our head in the sand, never doing what was "smart" and needed. We seem to thrive on accepting disaster and then jury rigging a few fixes than mitigate it far less than had we done the right thing to begin with.

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Biz Ag said:

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tk for tu juan said:

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https://www.hcfcd.org/Activity/Projects/White-Oak-Bayou

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And with all of the new residential developments along the 290 corridor flooding will only get worse.

Shoot, they'll be on the doorstep of Hempstead in less than ten years.

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Ryan the Temp said:

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TX04Aggie said:

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Yeah this is gonna suck. Wait till they start i-45 redux on top of that. But the lane shifts already back up west bound travellers down the pierce elevated. My office over looks it and it is a cluster already as of last week.

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This further reinforces my view that TxDOT is a jobs program.

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Furlock Bones said:

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sweet jesus. 4 years. well, we all know that means 6-7 18-21 years.

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cajunaggie08 said:

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aggiedent said:

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Mas89 said:

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Aggie71013 said:

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Is the flooding at this location tied to reservoirs in the Katy Prairie?

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In part. Katy drains thru Houston in Buffalo Bayou. Jersey Village area up to almost Cypress drains thru Houston thru White Oak Bayou. White Oak Bayou joins Buffalo Bayou at UH Downtown and goes to the ship channel ( Buffalo Bayou )
Cypress area to Lake Houston.
So a huge area drains thru downtown Houston. Think of the Katy reservoirs as retention ponds.

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And it goes beyond just any existing or potential reservoirs. The Katy Prairie was the last great sponge that absorbed rain water. Every acre of land paved over is one less acre absorbing that rain, and instead, it flows right down the I-10/ bayou corridor effecting everything including downtown.

Some key points we need to remember. The idea of preserving large portions of the Prairie and constructing new reservoirs dates back about 70 years. Numerous studies concluded it was needed. Furthermore, the existing dams are considered by the Corp of Engineers , "high risk" for failure owing to 1) structural issues and 2) the increasing runoff from upstream Prairie areas as development progresses.

And so we plod along with our head in the sand, never doing what was "smart" and needed. We seem to thrive on accepting disaster and then jury rigging a few fixes than mitigate it far less than had we done the right thing to begin with.

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Unfortunately the prairie isn't some wild land that "we" can just say preserve. All the land is owned by someone. Now the government could have stepped up and bought the land for the purpose of either keeping it a prairie or building another reservoir. I don't know how well that would go over in the last 50 years to have the state or federal government say we're going to eminent domain your land so the city far from you doesn't flood as often. Local houston leaders should have been petitioning the state or fed to get this going decades ago but I fear we've passed the point of no return.

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Anything northwest of the White Oaks Bayou watershed goes to the Cypress Creek watershed

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But the lane shifts already back up west bound travellers down the pierce elevated.

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CDUB98 said:

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What ever happened to 18 wheelers not being able to drive in the left lane?

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Pretty much zero traffic enforcement now due to short staffing. Have you not noticed the paper plated Altimas running wild?

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