Lina Hidalgo: Current flooding in Harris County is the 'worst ... Army Corps of Engineers' work in the region, said the Corps' Galveston-area spokesman Neil Murphy. Their work after Harvey ...

The bulk of that spending would go toward protecting Galveston Island and communities around the bay. The plan tackles two types of flooding: surge along the coastline and surge into the bay.

If the worst climate-change predictions come true, hundreds of coastal US towns and cities — from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Galveston ... could cause chronic flooding to affect as many ...

The bulk of that spending would go toward protecting Galveston Island and communities around the bay. The plan tackles two types of flooding: surge along the coastline and surge into the bay.