Spring - Klein Edition | October 2025

BY MELISSA ENAJE

Digging deeper

Going forward

and data-driven projects, including current and past capital projects. At an Aug. 21 workshop, ood district ocials said the multiyear, multiphase initiative will utilize community feedback to develop a strategy using tools such as detention basins, tunnels and oodplain risk analysis.

HCFCD ocials, along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are completing the early stages of the Solutions for Advancing Floodplain Evaluation and Resilience Study, or SAFER Study, which aims to identify projects across 11 of the county’s 23 watersheds—including Cypress Creek—to pursue large-scale federal funding. The study builds on current initiatives

Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey said during a Sept. 22 stakeholder town hall that out of the 15 canceled ood bond IDs, eight of them were located in his precinct, which covers unincorporated north Harris County. Despite having to place a pause on projects, Ramsey said $1.5 billion has already been invested in completed stormwater detention and channel improvements throughout the county. “This is really good engineering decisions being made to try to get projects moving,” Ramsey said.

SAFER Study timeline

Phase 1 summer- fall 2025 Gather public feedback

Phase 2 fall 2025- winter 2026 Tentatively select project plan

Phase 3 winter 2026- summer 2027 Draft feasibility report

Phase 4 summer 2027- fall 2027 Final report submission to federal agency

Phase 5 fall 2027- summer 2028 Congress authorizes plan

2018 ood bond funds by precinct The allocation of the $2.5 billion bond funds and their percentages by precincts were distributed as follows:

Precinct 3 25%

Precinct 2 19%

Precinct 4 17%

Precinct 1 21%

Countywide 17%

2025

2026

2027

2028

2029

$634.2M

$432M $425.4M $481.3M $526.8M

SOURCE: HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICTCOMMUNITY IMPACT

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