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County halts FEMA mitigation project after talks with HCC fail; $3.7 million in grant funds to be returned
Summary
Harris County Flood Control told commissioners it must terminate a FEMA mitigation grant tied to a detention basin at Houston Community College property after negotiations failed; staff said no alternate site met hydraulic and displacement constraints, and recommended returning $3.7 million of a $10 million congressional allocation.
Harris County Flood Control requested — and the court approved — termination of a FEMA hazard‑mitigation grant after staff said they could not secure a feasible site for a planned stormwater detention basin in the North Forest area.
Flood Control engineers told the court the project would have provided about 35 acre‑feet of storage and upgraded a local channel from a 10‑year to a 50‑year capacity. The project team evaluated potential locations and concluded the HCC (Houston Community College) campus property was the only hydraulically…
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