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Resident urges city to maximize storage at Dixie Farm Road detention basin to enable creek conveyance work
Summary
During public comment a resident urged the council and staff to maximize storage at the Dixie Farm Road detention basin and pursue additional upstream basins (Whitcomb, Blackhawk, Imperial Estates) so the city can move forward with conveyance improvements along the creek.
Don Johnson, a Friendswood resident, used his public‑comment time at the Aug. 4 meeting to urge the council to maximize storage capacity at the Dixie Farm Road detention basin and to press for additional detention basins upstream in the watershed.
Johnson said he had been monitoring the mass grading near the basin and learned the mass‑grading contract is nearing completion. He asked that the city’s forthcoming partner meeting on basin design “decide at that meeting that we maximize the storage capacity of that basin.”
He linked detention capacity to the…
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