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Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Management e Importance of Levees to Life and Property in Fort Bend Coun Doug Barnes, GISP Sr. Planning Coordinator Office of Emergency Management Fort Bend County

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Page 1: Levee stats

Fort Bend County

Office of Emergency Management

The Importance of Levees to Life and Property in Fort Bend CountyDoug Barnes, GISP

Sr. Planning CoordinatorOffice of Emergency Management

Fort Bend County

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Office of Emergency Management

Presentation Overview

• Levees at the national level• Levees at the county level• Interesting statistics about levees

and LIDs• How levees relate to lives and

property in Fort Bend County

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Office of Emergency Management

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Office of Emergency Management

In other words, 881 counties account for:

• 28% of all U.S. counties, or about 1 in 4 counties

• 37% of the U.S. land area

• 55% of the U.S. population, or about 156 million people

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Fort Bend County

Office of Emergency Management

Levee Districts in Fort Bend County:Unincorporated• LID 6 (River Park West)• LID 7 (New Territory)• LID 11 (Greatwood)• LID 19 (Riverstone)• LID 20 (Kingdom Heights)• MUD 121 (River Park West)• Pecan Grove MUD

Split Incorporated/Unincorporated• LID 15 (Sugar Land)• Sienna Plantation (Mo City)

Incorporated• First Colony LID 1• First Colony LID 2• LID 2 (Sugar Land)• LID 10 (Sugar Land)• LID 14 (Sugar Land)• LID 17 (Sugar Land)• MUD 46 (Missouri City)• MUD 49 (Missouri City)• Palmer Plantation MUD 1 (Mo City)• Palmer Plantation MUD 2 (Mo City)

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Fort Bend County

Office of Emergency Management

Levee Districts in Fort Bend County:

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Office of Emergency Management

GIS-Calculated Statistics for Levee Districts in Fort Bend County:

• 19 LIDs/MUDs• Account for 53.29 Sq. Miles (885.44 Sq. Miles in Fort Bend)

• 54,447 parcels located within FBC levee districts (258,428 parcels in the County, or about 1 in 5)

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Office of Emergency Management

Levees in Fort Bend County:

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Office of Emergency Management

GIS-Calculated Statistics for Levees in Fort Bend County:

• Fort Bend Levees• 99 miles of levee if Fort Bend County

• 27.4 miles of the Brazos River frontage is protected by levee in Fort Bend County

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Office of Emergency Management

How Does This Relate to Lives and Property?

• Total value of structures protected by levees in Fort Bend County?

$10.6 billion$10,595,767,533.00 to be exact!!!

• Total value of structures + land protected by levees in Fort Bend County?

$14.1 billion$14,110,898,663.00 to be exact!!!

•Total number of lives protected by levees in Fort bend County?

141,895or, about 1 in 4 people

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Office of Emergency Management

Questions?

Doug Barnes, GISPSr. Planning Coordinator

Office of Emergency ManagementFort Bend County

[email protected]