But we got abandoned houses across Houston that had become illegal dumping sites that will clog the culvert, clog the ditch. So We came up with a new idea to take some of our drainage funds, knock down the house, which is causing the drainage, and go to the next one. So it was politicized that we don't care about drainage, that illegal dumping is not the cause of flooding. Not every abandoned house is creating a drainage problem. (43:01–43:13)
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Asserts a new plan to use drainage funds to demolish abandoned houses causing drainage issues.
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