{"id":149915,"date":"2026-02-04T01:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149915\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:28:18","slug":"friendswood-seeks-resident-input-to-guide-flooding-mitigation-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149915\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendswood seeks resident input to guide flooding mitigation efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFriendswood will host a second public meeting to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswooddrainage.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friendswood Comprehensive Master Drainage Plan<\/a> on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The specifics<\/p>\n<p>City officials held an initial meeting in August to gather resident feedback on how to address flooding in Friendswood. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friendswoodcity\/posts\/pfbid02yMPLSVjQQp7iGBp3HUHrZG5fHMr5xnGDqh8J72LX1bktaPJFrQyXGK4hCSPpz8ZSl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming meeting<\/a> will include updated draft strategies incorporating resident feedback from the August meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Friendswood Activity Building, located at 416 Morningside Drive, Friendswood.<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters<\/p>\n<p>The plan will reflect current data and use modern modeling techniques to create a list of prioritized flood reduction projects, actionable recommendations and a centralized database to guide development and funding decisions, according to the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Funding to create the plan comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, administered through the Texas Division of Emergency Management, according to the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note<\/p>\n<p>At the Friendswood City Council Feb. 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswoodtx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/2133\/files\/attachment\/9147\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>, city staff updated City Council on several ongoing drainage projects in the city, including:<\/p>\n<p>A utility relocation at Clear Lake near the Blackhawk Wastewater Treatment PlantDeepwood Flood Control Project is nearing completionThe city will move forward with a dry bottom detention basin to provide over 730 acre-feet of detention for the Friendswood Regional Stormwater Detention BasinExcavations for the detention ponds for the Friendswood City Center are nearly completeWhat\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>Following the second public meeting, staff will present a draft of the drainage plan to City Council in May, according to the city\u2019s website.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friendswood will host a second public meeting to discuss the Friendswood Comprehensive Master Drainage Plan on Feb. 12.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[62427,50592,62426,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-149915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-friendswood-drainage-improvements","tag-friendswood-government","tag-government-in-friendswood","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}