Freese and Nichols—a privately owned engineering, planning and consulting firm—has worked with the city since 2022 on its Drainage Area Master Plan, according to agenda documents.
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New Braunfels City Council allocated up to $240,000 in economic development corporation funds for the DCC Floodplain Remapping Project on Aug. 11. The scope and fee will expand on the work Freese and Nichols has already performed for the city, agenda documents state.
The DCC is a major waterway through New Braunfels and can also be a major source of flooding. Remapping would update the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, floodplain maps of the DCC and a portion of the Upper DCC. It would also help provide economic development opportunities with the DCC trail and adjacent creek area, as previously reported by Community Impact.
The new route makes up 13 miles and would begin at the confluence of the DCC and the Guadalupe River and end at the Soil Conservation Service Site No. 2 Reservoir in Comal County, just outside of city limits. The DCC was last modeled and mapped in the city limits in 2003 and upstream of the city limits in 2005, according to previous reporting.
Looking ahead
The remapping project is anticipated to begin in late 2025 or early 2026.
