The land sank, the floods came—and the homes had to go.
In this Houston neighborhood, repetitive flooding made worse by land subsidence forced a hard decision: remove the homes.
“We worked with FEMA, the city, and the county to buy out these properties and relocate residents to safer ground,” says Tina Peterson of the Harris County Flood Control District.
What was once a neighborhood is now open land, part of a larger strategy to reduce flood risk in areas where the ground has sunk from excessive groundwater pumping.
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