On Election Day, it's fitting to review the many costs of subsidence...a problem that could be easily cured...if only we had more political willpower. See this powerful series of time-lapse photos showing how subsidence has grown to engulf the whole Houston region.
Bob, in recent years there has been a lot of surface water initiatiatives completed a pipeline/canal from Trinity River to Lake Houston. Pipeline from Lake Houston to Barker Resivore being constructed. The areas North of Houston you reference are and have been Republican controlled as the State.