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Some say that’s not good news for an urban area that requireds a good stormwater drainagesystem — and control over what goes into that system.Houston faces the dauntinbg challenge of trying to drainj flat land with an aging infrastructure and not enough funds or people to do the job, says Caroll Ellinger, senior assistant director of the city’x public works and engineering department. Ellinger and othersz from the publicworks dept. spok e at the Gulf Coast Green Symposium 2009 held in Apriol atReliant Center.
Ellinger’s group is responsiblee for the department’s compliance with state watefr quality requirements underthe city’s storm sewer which it shares with Harri s County, the county’s flood control district and the Houston District of the Texas Department of Transportation. The Houston area continues to experiencde “significant structural flooding” while projects needed to repair and upgradwthe city’s stormwater drainage infrastructur e are backlogged, she says.