Cypress Edition | June 2025

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BY JOVANNA AGUILAR, ANGELA BONILLA & DANICA LLOYD

Flood control district to expand Kluge detention basin Construction on the expansion of a Cypress-area stormwater detention basin is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2026, said Emily Woodell, the chief external relations ocer for the Harris County Flood Control District, at a Houston North- west Chamber of Commerce luncheon May 8. What you need to know Kluge detention basin D

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Located north of Little Cypress Creek between Kluge Road and Longwood Trace Drive, the project will store 200 acre-feet of stormwater, Woodell said. That equates to about 65.17 million gallons of water. Once the expansion is complete, the basin will have enough space to ll half of Downtown Houston with a foot of water, she said. In case you missed it Stormwater detention basins have been a key strategy the HCFCD has implemented to miti- gate ooding in the Cypress Creek watershed,

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Community Impact previously reported. In 2023, the HCFCD purchased a portion of the Longwood Golf Club property with plans to miti- gate ooding in the surrounding neighborhoods. “It’s no secret to anybody in this room that ooding is Harris County’s No. 1 natural disaster,” Woodell said at the May 8 luncheon.

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