Commissioner Lesley Briones and the Harris County Flood Control District held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday along Mason Creek in Nottingham Country, marking the start of construction on the Barker Reservoir Basin Rehabilitation and Restoration Project.
During Hurricane Harvey, the streets of Nottingham Country were impassable and, in neighboring communities, hundreds of homes were flooded.
This project reduces flood risk for more than 112,000 people by: restoring 3.25 miles of upstream channels, installing 1.1 miles of new storm drainage, placing 30,000 tons of rock to repair erosion, and removing accumulations of sediment and obstructions.
