Danwell Home said:
Imagine a massive hurricane like Harvey hits the Gulf Coast and Biden does a photo op at Colony Ridge.
Seriously though, you look on Google Maps and can tell there are no drainage ditches and its all clear cut, zero trees. You can even see some standing water in pictures posted of the neighborhood. So I guess the plan was to build it super cheap for illegals and take zero responsibility? Tell them they can go to the appropriate authorities/govt and complain if they want?
Yeah it was pretty much lowland to begin with. Much of it was wetlands. It is my understanding they began developing even more acreage to the north and it, too, is largely wetlands. What is suspected is that the company doing the soil testing fibbed about the soils so that less drainage and detention was needed. Anyone can guess who might benefit from that scenario. And now nobody can locate 15 or 20 of the drainage analysis reports that are missing. Anyone can guess who might benefit from there being missing reports pertaining to drainage.
And it will not take a hurricane like Harvey to be a major issue. The first flooding problem with Colony Ridge was with a 2" rain over a two-day period which is basically nothing. I have property about 60 miles from there and we got 46" of rain in just over 48 hours with Harvey and 22" or so with Tropical Storm Imelda. Did not flood with either, but the water near the property was much deeper than with Harvey, though less in total rainfall, since it occurred over far fewer hours.
If Colony Ridge got 8" to 10" of rain in a day or two, the mess is going to impact those not only in Colony Ridge but also around Lake Houston.
And the developing the property super cheap is apparently the goal, and selling it to people who are very unlikely to complain (many of them are illegals) is genius. In fact, Trey Harris has publicly stated the type of people they are selling to, at least in the initial development. The complaints have been by those outside Colony Ridge whose flooding and roads and traffic are impacted by what is going on in Colony Ridge.
I would guess that the lots are sold on a contract for deed basis and I have read they cost around $30,000 each and carry a 12% interest rate. What a deal!
