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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Water is merciless and doesn't care. Water is Kraken.
It is. Is there a fix?
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In the case of the Levee Improvement Districts, there is a fix. More pumps to add to the capacity of storm water discharge. And vigilant maintenance of the levees. One levee along the Brazos did fail down in Brazoria County during this event. People will be more likely to approve any bond issues proposed to by the LIDs to add pumps and increase water retention volume. We approved a bond for our LID to raise our levees 2 feet and widened the main ditch in the last 10 years. Glad we did or it could have been much worse here. Now we could use more pumps. As for the problems up along Buffalo Bayou and the Addicks/Barker Reservoir to the north of here, there are major roadblocks. Rampant development of the upper regions within the flood pools of the reservoirs and the limited amount of water that can be released without flooding vast stretches of Houston are just some of them. The opportunity to install massive conduits under Interstate 10 to provide extra outflow from the reservoirs before the highway was rebuilt a few years ago was shoved aside for political reasons and lack of funding. That would have been much easier and less expensive than digging a huge tunnel to do the same thing now.