At least $410 million worth of flood projects throughout the county are going to be bid in the next 12 months, equaling more than 30 project packages, according to Harris County Flood Control District’s construction bid calendar.
Harris County Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey said at the Oct. 30 court meeting the flood district is also working with federal and state partners for funding.
“Identifying roughly $400 million in projects that will be bid in the next 12 months, that is encouraging,” Ramsey said.
At least $3.5 billion worth of approved projects stemming from the 2018 flood bond are also going to be bid over the next three to five years, Ramsey added.
Zooming out
Various flood mitigation projects in high flood risk areas across Harris County have advanced with secured local, state and federal funding partnerships after the unanimous approval from Harris County commissioners in September as part of a restructured proposal built upon the work completed from the 2018 flood bond.
At the Sept. 18 court meeting, HCFCD Executive Director Christina Petersen addressed commissioners on the updates and debuted the new 2018 flood bond dashboard—a public website where users can find flood project schedules, funding sources, completion dates, prioritization scores, locations and lifecycles for all projects that will be updated quarterly, according to Petersen.
The approved flood mitigation projects build upon the completion of more than 100 projects Harris County has undertaken by HCFCD since the 2018 bond approval, according to flood district officials, amounting to $1.5 billion, which includes:
- 16,000-plus acre-feet of stormwater detention constructed in the county
- 46,000-plus linear feet of channel conveyance improvements, such as the Turkey Creek, Mud Gully and Hunting Bayou Channel work
- 5,800 acres of land acquired and preserved
- 3,100-plus people relocated from home buyouts
