The Briefing Room
State Chapters => Texas => Topic started by: Elderberry on January 21, 2018, 01:49:31 pm
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Houston Chronicle by James Drew 1/19/2018
Twenty-five years ago, Fort Bend County's assistant engineer emerged from a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He had new information, and he was worried.
Charles Glen Crocker, then 38, had learned that the footprint for Barker Reservoir was bigger than the land owned by the government, placing future homeowners in the Cinco Ranch and Kelliwood subdivisions within what engineers called "flood pools." The reservoir, dry much of the time, could fill during a major rainstorm and spread into the homes of unsuspecting residents.
His resulting letter, written on July 6, 1992, was a warning to county officials: "...recent rainfall events and weather conditions have shown that many areas considered relatively safe from rising waters have been flooded."
More: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-Fort-Bend-engineer-s-warning-25-years-old-12511632.php (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/A-Fort-Bend-engineer-s-warning-25-years-old-12511632.php)
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I feel your pain, Mr. Crocker. It's like people want Houston to flood, Denver to run out of water, etc.
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Fake news. The engineer was 38 and not 25 as the title says.
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Fake news. The engineer was 38 and not 25 as the title says.
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