{"id":232764,"date":"2026-04-03T02:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232764\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:04:20","slug":"preview-friendswood-officials-to-consider-lift-station-upgrades-e-bike-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232764\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW: Friendswood officials to consider lift station upgrades, e-bike safety\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ci.friendswood.tx.us\/256\/Mayor-City-Council\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friendswood City Council <\/a>will consider whether to award a $1.6 million contract for flood mitigation on sanitary sewer lift Stations No. 1 and 17 at an April 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/friendswoodtx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/2135\/overview\u00a0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Friendswood City Council will consider whether to award the $1.6 million contract to Dickinson-based Branch Construction Group.<\/p>\n<p>The project would be funded by FEMA and bond funds and would raise the station\u2019s electrical parts two feet above Hurricane Harvey <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/pearland-friendswood-manvel\/government\/2026\/02\/03\/friendswood-seeks-resident-input-to-guide-flooding-mitigation-efforts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flood levels<\/a> to protect the city\u2019s sewer system, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>The backstory<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s sanitary sewer system sustained severe damage during Hurricane Harvey, and currently, Station No. 1 is operating on bypass pumping because of outdated electrical infrastructure, according to city documents.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>City Council will also discuss what tools they have to protect the safety of e-bike riders in Friendswood at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned<\/p>\n<p>City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. April 6 at Council Chambers, located at 910 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friendswood City Council will consider whether to award a $1.6 million contract for flood mitigation on sanitary sewer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[90091,50591,62426,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-232764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-council-friendswood","tag-friendswood-city-council","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\/232764","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=232764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}