CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Island Strategic Action Committee (ISAC) is having its monthly meeting Tuesday night, and one agenda item many of island residents are going to be interested in seeks to resolve ongoing flooding issues.
A subcommittee has looked at the problem and made a number of recommendations to try and keep one person's property from flooding their neighbors.
Bob Corbett, a member the Island Strategic Action Committee, looked at the issues caused by a city requirement that new home foundations must be built a foot higher than the base flood elevation. He showed 3NEWS around several island sites to explain the problem that ordinance caused.
"Water still winds up in their yard, standing water winds up in their backyard after any heavy rain," Corbett said.
The problem is particularly visible along Hawksnest Bay Drive that has new houses built next to older homes. The elevation requirement caused some properties to be well above others. Some residents put in a fence or wooden divider to channel the water to the street but that apparently doesn't always work.
"This house is an example of how to solve the problem of building a 4-foot or 3-foot higher house than the adjacent homes the older adjacent home a me wall or stem wall has been built which allows the runoff slope to start at a much lower level," Corbett said.
City of Corpus Christi Development Services Assistant director Michael Dice said the city's development services promises to work with island residents on this flooding issue.
"We want to make sure that we're flexible in what we do, we provide options to our builders, we provide options to our citizens," Dice said. "We wanna make sure that the laws that are there are always open for examination we never want to just pass something and continue down."
One of the subcommittee's recommendations is to limit the side and year yard runoff slope to 10%.
If the ISAC members agree with the recommendations then they will be sent on up to city council to take a look and see what, if anything, it wants to do.
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