![]() ![]() ![]() As the city readies to create next year’s budget, Rivera and her neighbors are asking that the increases be made permanent.ĭrainage, they argue, should not be individual property owners’ responsibility, because failure to maintain an open ditch impacts more than an individual property - it can impact the entire street. That burden often falls on low-income communities.Īfter Harvey’s historic floodwaters receded in 2017, Rivera’s neighbors in northeast Houston began to organize around drainage, cleaning out ditches and gutters, calling their representatives and attending city council and county commissioner’s court.Ī spokesperson for Mayor Sylvester Turner said that this fiscal year, the city and Harris County have supplemented the budget to address local drainage problems throughout the city, bringing the Storm Water Action Team’s budget up to $60 million from its usual $20 million. OPEN DITCHES: Houston residents must clean their own ditches. Even unnamed events - including a rain storm this April - can cause parts of the streets to fill with water, she said, trapping some residents within their homes. ![]() It flooded during Tropical Storm Allison, the Memorial and Tax Day floods and Hurricane Harvey. ![]()
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