The Harris County Flood Control District has paused more than 26 groups of flood mitigation projects following revelations of a major funding shortfall for 2018 flood bond projects that were approved by voters after Hurricane Harvey.

The flood control district is also currently facing about a $410 million shortfall on dozens of post-Harvey flood projects.

Harris County Flood Control District Executive Director Tina Peterson revealed that about 15 line items in the bond, identified in county documents as ‘bond IDs,’ were determined to be unfeasible after engineering analyses. Updated information about the bond was presented to county commissioners last week, several months after the flood control district projected that the county was more than $1 billion short on funding for the projec

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