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White Oak Bayou Projects Help Spare Jersey Village From Recent Flooding
July 12, 2006
The flood-prone city of Jersey Village did not flood during the recent June 19 storm because of projects by the Harris County Flood Control District to widen White Oak Bayou, build a secondary channel to divert stormwater around Jersey Village, and excavate massive stormwater detention basins.
"The channel was within inches of going over its banks. Had the Flood Control District not done the work on White Oak Bayou, we would have flooded," said Ed Heathcott, mayor of Jersey Village.
The city also escaped flooding during heavy rains in December, 2005 because of District projects.
Significant Water Level Reductions
During the June 19 event, which dropped more than 10 inches of rain in some parts of the city, White Oak Bayou was not responsible for flooding homes, as it has in the past in Jersey Village. The results of preliminary modeling show that water surface elevations in White Oak Bayou were reduced by 1-to 1.5-feet in the Jersey Village area, keeping stormwater within the channel's banks.
"The citizens of Jersey Village recognize the benefits of the improvements to White Oak Bayou in the Jersey Village area," Heathcott said.
Part of the Bigger Picture
To date, the District has spent approximately $68 million dollars widening 7.5 miles of White Oak Bayou from Tidwell to the Sam Houston Tollway and constructing the Jersey Village Bypass Channel (which diverts some water in White Oak Bayou around the city of Jersey Village), purchased roughly 500 acres for 10 regional stormwater detention basins, and constructed eight of the 10 basins. The combined, current storage capacity of these eight basins is 1.1 billion gallons of stormwater, or more than two Reliant Astrodomes of volume.
> Learn more about the White Oak Bayou Federal Flood Damage Reduction Project
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