Great news for Houston Flood Control...........

8.8 yrs
~ 1 year, 1 mo ago Aug 28, '25 2:02pm

Great news for Houston Flood Control...........
Musk eyeing building tunnels in Harris County.
An investigation by The Texas NPR Newsroom and the Houston Chronicle has found that the billionaire, in partnership with Houston-area Rep. Wesley Hunt, has spent months aggressively pushing state and local officials to hire Musk's Boring Co. to build two narrower, 12-foot tunnels around one major watershed. That could be a potentially cheaper, but, at least one expert said, less effective solution to the region's historic flooding woes.

Hunt's team has said the Boring project would cost $760 million and involve the company getting 15% of the cost up front from state and local coffers.

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9.1 yrs
~ 1 year, 1 mo ago Aug 28, '25 2:09pm

ignorant question: you can do these kind of boring projects down in our neck of the woods, this close to the water table?

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11.7 yrs
~ 1 year, 1 mo ago Aug 29, '25 7:34am

billcherie2 : Two 12 ft tunnels won't be enough, just a drop in the bucket.

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11.4 yrs
~ 1 year, 1 mo ago Aug 29, '25 6:36pm

The designs called for 40 ft diameter tunnels and he wants to drill two 12 foot tunnels...less than 1/4 of that capacity and nowhere near enough but it's cheaper for him because he already has 12 ft boring machines. It would be a waste of our tax $$.