A project to help alleviate flooding along Brays Bayou up to Lawndale Street will begin in April:
The Harris County Flood Control District recently awarded a $6.8 million contract to BRH-Garver Construction L.P., to begin widening the bayou from the Houston Ship Channel to Lawndale Street.
BRH-Garver, a Houston-based company, was chosenas the “lowest most responsible bidder,” flood district spokeswoman Heather Saucier said.
Project Brays is a $450 million project by the flood control district and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to reduce flood risks. It includes widening and deepening 21 miles of the bayou, creating four storm water detention basins and replacing or modifying 32 bridges.
When complete the bayou will be widened from its mouth to Fondren Road and will eliminate the 100-year flood plain for the tens of thousands of residents and businesses along the bayou, Saucier said.
“This first stage of the widening is expected to start some time in early April. Work on this segment, widening the bayou to Lawndale Street, is expected to take about a year,” she said, adding that all of Project Brays is expected to be complete by 2014.
Once this first stage is complete, East End residents along that stretch of Brays Bayou should experience a reduction in flooding risks, Saucier said.
