After heavy rains and the Brazos River flooded parts of Fort Bend County Memorial Day weekend, area officials are working on recovery.

“The most damage done was in Simonton,” Fort Bend County Road Commissioner Marc Grant said. “They have over 250 homes affected in Simonton.”

He said about 1,200 homes throughout Richmond, Rosenberg and unincorporated parts of the county were affected.

As a result, Grant said, the county hired clean up contractors to pick up residents’ flood-damaged property and debris from their homes and streets.

“We’ll do three sweeps if necessary,” Grant said.

In Missouri City, Mayor Allen Owen issued a voluntary evacuation and declared a state of emergency May 29.

As a result of 20 inches of rain that swelled the Brazos River and flowed downstream to the Missouri City area, 14 city streets were deemed impassable, said Jamie Ponce De Leon, the emergency management coordinator with the Missouri City Fire Department.

He spoke about the floods at a town hall meeting June 9.

“Mother Nature just decided to do what it was going to do and took [the river] to almost 55 feet,” he said.

Ponce De Leon said no one was injured, no one had to be rescued and there was no damage to city facilities.

In Sugar Land, the Brazos Turnaround and Sugar Land Memorial Park were closed. Parts of University Boulevards closed temporarily.

“We knew going in that [the] park would flood, but it was intentionally built and designed to accommodate river flooding,” said Doug Adolph, assistant director of communications for the city of Sugar Land.

He said no homes were flood-damaged.

At the county level, the Commissioners Court issued an emergency declaration and extended it.

“We’ll continue to extend [the declaration] while we’re in recovery so that we keep the qualifying period,” County Judge Robert Hebert said. “The emergency defines the period of time in which people can identify damage that they can claim.”