Governor Greg Abbott’s Commission to Rebuild Texas offered to the Texas Legislature wide-ranging recommendations to help Texas better prepare for future catastrophic storms in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. A total of 44 recommendations were made in the over 150 pages of the report.
Among the recommendations, the Commission also looked at the need to future-proof the state’s infrastructure. The report recommended prioritizing more than 4,000 potential projects and establishing a study committee to evaluate and propose options for a state-local partnership to help future-proof Texas against flood events on a watershed basis.
The Executive Summary states, “We must make the Texas Gulf Coast — and indeed the entire state — more resilient and better able to withstand future disasters, whether the threat comes from hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, flooding or other disasters, a process Governor Abbott has called ‘future-proofing’ our state.”
