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1836 :
The release from Conroe during Harvey is exactly what flooded Kingwood. The west fork of the San Jacinto river became clogged by sand from up-river mining operations, which prevented the Conroe release from getting to Lake Houston, which flooded Kingwood. Think of it like a miniature dam of sand a the point the west fork of the San Jacinto river enters Lake Houston, and Kingwood being in the flood plain of the miniature dam. Help us make sense of this BobRehak!

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Skippy : True, but I'm not sure that has to do with what I posted.

Skippy :
Backed up water caused the Tax Day KW flood and the water couldn't escape SE to Lake Houston. It's been cleared up and dredged by COH but it needs more now.

Lake Houston is releasing 14,000 cfs.

Boonie :
AI says: The existing Lake Houston dam has four gates with a discharge capacity of 10,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). Where did you see the 14,000 cfs info? To be clear, I'm not doubting you - there's info everywhere (impossible to know what is credible, especially AI!).

Skippy : From the Coastal Water Authority website. It also provides lake levels etc.

TEXASGIRLMAMMA: Eight years later, we're just now recovering from the last damage caused by the Harvey flooding. The flood damaged KW's psyche.

CaffeineFree : It really did! People who have not experienced it, just don't have a clue.

👆👆👆👆How many days since Harvey?

Skippy : Kingwood floods practically every time it rains heavily. The release maybe why kingwood flooded so badly but it would've flooded regardless during Harvey.

Heathur : Yeah but there's caveats to all that. Areas like Kingwood Dr in the front always has flooding issues with heavy rains coming fast. But we had like 55 inches of rain here and most of KW was not flooding except those areas in streets that always do and no homes were flooded UNTIL they opened the Conroe reservoir.

TEXASGIRLMAMMA : Me too!