- Behind-the-Scenes Efforts: Rep. Wesley Hunt has spent months trying to get officials to hire Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to build a major flood infrastructure project in Houston.
- Size Matters: The Boring Co. has pitched building tunnels that are far smaller than what most studies have indicated the region would need to address its ongoing flooding issues.
- Under Consideration: County officials recently put together a report looking at the possibility of smaller tunnels, though they say they’ve made no final decision on design or contractor.
My concern is more about desertification. Haven’t cities and areas with too much drainage suffered from a lack of groundwater which directly impacted the local climate? IIRC there’s even a city in Indonesia that is now sinking because the Dutch colonials drained all the rain water into the sea. That combined with the usage of groundwater for irrigation and local water supply lead to the groundwater reserves depleting and the city sinking significantly. So much so that the coastal city is now in danger of sinking into the ocean more quickly.
Hopefully the drainage tunnels will also drain into groundwater reservoirs and not just into the sea.
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