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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in Waller County public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Broadband and utility installations in county rights-of-way
AT&T, Comcast, and PS Lightwave got notices accepted for fiber optic lines and poles along Hegar, Rice, Joseph, Cameron, Penick, and Twinwood roads — more broadband infrastructure coming to the county.
Prairie View water plant generator cost overruns
Prairie View will pay about $60,000 in cost overruns on a grant-funded generator at Water Plant No. 2, which the county will hand over to the city when done. The overruns came from four years of cost escalation since the grant application.
Countywide master drainage plan identifies 17 flood problem areas
Two big drainage moves: buying into Kane Island's detention ponds for three road projects at ~8% of cost, and a $5.1 million state-grant-funded regional detention facility on the old airport property with the Brookshire-Katy Drainage District. As the fastest-growing county in Texas, flood control is getting expensive attention.
Inline detention variance for drainage
The engineer's office got approval for an inline detention variance — putting a detention pond within a drainage channel — based on hydraulic analysis showing no added flood risk to other properties.