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every year more land in the outskirts of Houston is paved over and has bare minimum retention ponds added, ensuring that a long heavy rain or a series of rain events will produce ever larger volumes of runoff
I watched a development go in in typical H-town fashion years back... property was half-ass leveled, low spots that had been basically swamp for a decade were filled in and not compacted and had slabs poured on them literally the day after having soil pushed over them. drainage was drastically altered, fucking neighboring properties over. the sewage (this is Houston suburb of course so they have their own on-site processing plant which is uphill from the majority of the development) had numerous pipe collapses because they didn't bed the pipe properly, didn't use the correct diameter, oh and they used corrugated plastic instead of concrete or pvc. their retention pond has massive pumps that kick on as soon as there's any accumulation, which means everybody's pre-existing lots downhill of the outflow are often flooded after minor rains because of two enormous in-ground pumps pushing all of the water from two slapdash neighborhoods out of a single outflow pipe. the fucker that did it declared bankruptcy for his development corp afterwards, as is the way, bought up the assets with his new shell company, and moved on to the next disaster development completely liability free and lawsuit proof.
edit: the houses in that neighborhood are often visibly crooked and their streets still flood due to the fucked drainage. also the houses were built like absolute dogshit, definitely not to code and their roofs are constantly being replaced due to gulf storms.
every year the flooding in Houston gets worse
every year more land in the outskirts of Houston is paved over and has bare minimum retention ponds added, ensuring that a long heavy rain or a series of rain events will produce ever larger volumes of runoff
:sicko-wistful: plenty of parking though
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I watched a development go in in typical H-town fashion years back... property was half-ass leveled, low spots that had been basically swamp for a decade were filled in and not compacted and had slabs poured on them literally the day after having soil pushed over them. drainage was drastically altered, fucking neighboring properties over. the sewage (this is Houston suburb of course so they have their own on-site processing plant which is uphill from the majority of the development) had numerous pipe collapses because they didn't bed the pipe properly, didn't use the correct diameter, oh and they used corrugated plastic instead of concrete or pvc. their retention pond has massive pumps that kick on as soon as there's any accumulation, which means everybody's pre-existing lots downhill of the outflow are often flooded after minor rains because of two enormous in-ground pumps pushing all of the water from two slapdash neighborhoods out of a single outflow pipe. the fucker that did it declared bankruptcy for his development corp afterwards, as is the way, bought up the assets with his new shell company, and moved on to the next disaster development completely liability free and lawsuit proof.
edit: the houses in that neighborhood are often visibly crooked and their streets still flood due to the fucked drainage. also the houses were built like absolute dogshit, definitely not to code and their roofs are constantly being replaced due to gulf storms.
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