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League City is making a $4 million investment to build a detention pond near the Oaks Clear Creek neighborhood, located west of Highway 3.
What residents should know
League City City Council voted unanimously at its July 28 meeting to award nearly $4 million in combined contracts to engineering firm UES Professional Solutions 44 and Houston-based contractor iCON GC for the second phase of drainage improvements for the Oaks of Clear Creek neighborhood.
For the project’s construction portion, the city received bids from 12 firms ranging from $3.6 million to $6.1 million and recommended hiring iCON GC, the lowest bidder, per city documents.
The local impact
Council member Tommy Cones said at the meeting that he’d received three calls about walkability near the area and asked city staff to look into building a walking trail near the detention pond.
“If you look at Oaks Clear Creek, there’s nothing in that area to [walk on],” Cones said. “Highway 3 is about it.”
Mayor Nick Long said at the meeting he supported efforts to build walkable paths near the area, due to previous detention ponds the city has built simply becoming “mosquito pits.” He said he’d like to see staff come back with “several different options in order to amenitize that pond.”
“Going forward we need to be clear that any pond we build needs to be amenitized,” Long said.
Zooming out
Council member Chad Tressler asked at the meeting if the city would be looking into adding walking paths for existing detention ponds, such as the one near the Bay Colony subdivision. Long said many of those ponds were not originally built by the city, but rather by private developers, and that the homeowner associations are responsible for them.
City Manager John Baumgartner said at the meeting he would send a few different options for the Oaks Clear Creek pond along with proposed costs for City Council to consider before the end of July.
The timeline
The project is expected to be completed in spring 2027, per city documents.
