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South Made Creek Rehabilitation Project is Underway


December 5, 2006
The Harris County Flood Control District is currently performing a major rehabilitation project to a tributary of South Mayde Creek that extends from Elrod (near North Mason Road) to Mayde Creek - about a half-mile stretch near the Lakes of Bridgewater subdivision.

Contractors are repairing severely-eroded side slopes of the channel and installing new outfall pipes, a roughly $160,000 project that is expected to be completed by the end of the year, weather permitting.

Rehabilitation construction to the banks of South Mayde Creek.

Generally speaking, erosion is caused by poor soil quality and the constant conveyance of stormwater. In Harris County, the texture of some surface soils tends to be sandy and sugary in nature and can undermine the integrity of a channel's banks. To reduce the risk of future erosion, a channel's banks are often laid back to form gentler side slopes.

The Flood Control District maintains about 2,500 miles of channels countywide.

> South Mayde Creek is in the Addicks Reservoir watershed

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