Apart from the Harris County Flood Control District, who has authority over drainage and flooding in Harris County?
The City of Houston is one of several floodplain administrators for the community’s participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Houston develops its own criteria for the design of its storm sewer, street drainage, and stormwater detention storage systems. Other incorporated areas have floodplain administrators that develop their own drainage design criteria. In the unincorporated areas of Harris County, the County Engineer’s office is the floodplain administrator. In all, the county has thirty-four floodplain administrators, and the HCFCD is not one of them.
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