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Response <br />Comment <br />We are confident that these concerns, along with <br />larger floods than those engineered for. We fully expect much larger floods since they happen all around us in central Texas. We need to be sure we are not exchanging one set of flooding <br /> victims for another.The reality (check our one-pager) is that we can expect much higher floods than the FEMA 100 year flood plain lines would lead people to expect. The combination <br /> of climate change and our already extreme rainfall events in central Texas overpowering such a bypass or overflow trench, are a danger to all those who live at the point where the bypass <br /> would meet the San Marcos River, as well as all along the bypass route, and also those living on the San Marcos river within a few miles below the bypass exit point.environmental concerns <br /> in altering a river course (which always leads to erosion and transport of massive amounts of soil that would then flow into the San Marcos River), would eventually show such a bypass <br /> project or overflow project to be impractical, too expensive and too harmful to both the residents in the new route and to the rivers and their ecosystems. Thus spending this limited <br /> amount of HUD funding toward that Bypass project would be a waste of precious resources.For these reasons, we believe the HUD funding given to the city needs to be used in sensible <br /> ways to improve infrastructure and drainage inside city limits, other than this enormous bypass project. And funds should be spent mostly on funding the housing needs that are so overwhelming <br /> in the city since the floods of 2015. Repairs and raising of houses are the urgent priorities for this financial assistance, along with purchasing those houses most likely to flood <br /> again, to allow that floodplain land to be left open as a buffer against flooding in the future. Some drainage infrastructure in those unbuilt riparian buffer zones, could be planted <br /> properly or structured to better <br />Element <br />Source <br />Date <br /># <br /> <br />