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A comedic part about Houston flooding is that at least one large suburb on the west side was built within an overflow reservoir. The neighborhood is literally
by jounker 5y ago
A comedic part about Houston flooding is that at least one large suburb on the west side was built within an overflow reservoir. The neighborhood is literally a water containment area.
- caseysoftware 5y agoWhich one is that?
- nicwolff 5y agoCanyon Gate, among others, in Barker Reservoir's flood zone. Typically excellent interactive NY Times article on it here https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-harvey-flooding-reservoir.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...
- caseysoftware 5y agoThanks! I hadn't seen that before.
- oliwarner 5y agoThat's alarmingly common. It only takes one idiotic or corrupt planning team to flip decades of sensible flood planning. All this land set aside gets built on and everyone acts surprised when it's foot-deep in raw sewage. Happens frequently in the UK. Too many fingers at every level of government happy to take a "donation" from a developer.