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Lake Conroe dam's releases cause flood of lawsuits
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harvey-s-Niagara-Moment-Lake-Conroe-dam-releases-12272868.phpIn the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, officials at the Lake Conroe dam began unprecedented releases into the West Fork of the San Jacinto River, sending an amount of water rushing downstream that approached the average volume pouring over Niagara Falls.
Now hundreds of property owners down river are in court, demanding the San Jacinto River Authority, the overseers of the dam, be held accountable for releasing about 106 billion gallons of water into their communities and flooding thousands of homes in Montgomery and northern Harris County....
...Nobody warned them the water would rise rapidly from the river, about a half-mile away. Nobody told them their home likely would be engulfed. Nobody told them they might lose everything.
"There are people who clearly were not flooded until they released that dam," said Derek Potts, an attorney handling one of at least two lawsuits filed against the river authority and the Texas Water Development Board. "It doesn't seem like it was very controlled. Why couldn't they have done it more orderly and gradual? Some homes look like a bomb went off."...