San jacinto river authority Reviews

Caused Kingwood to flood. In the middle of the night with no warning they opened the flood gates.

Incredible hospitality and service every time I m there!

Almost as crooked as Cecil Bell. Caused many homes near Spring Creek and many others along the San Jacinto River chain to flood. The lake should have been drained months ahead of the late storm season. But can t because they are required to keep it full to sell the water it holds. They also take hug cuts from Wastewater companies.

The problem is not Lake Conroe's water levels, it's the incompetence of the people running SJRA (and their constant lies). They caused problems that never occurred before and they should not be allowed to manage the lake. For decades the lake was fine and nonbody experienced this issue before as they had better management. So let's recap Harvey:

SJRA does zero pre-release. During the storm, they release almost nothing the entire time. When the storm essentially stopped raining in Lake Conroe (permanently -- clear skies) and when Kingwood is experiencing the maximum flooding, they decide to open all the gates and the water went down from 6' or so above normal to almost normal levels in hours!!!!

Normally, they do a control release in which you are releasing a steady amount of water constantly over a long duration (starting before the storm comes, during the storm and for week or two afterwards). They did all of it instantly right as the sun appears! SJRA needs to be removed from running the Lake and Houston should take direct charge of it and use Lake Conroe for an emergency only supply of water (they should not be giving Montgomery County all the water).

Lake Conroe should return to the 201 normal water level or even 202 as they had it at times in the past for entire year. Lake Conroe is designed for Houston during extreme droughts (like we had before Harvey) as an emergency source of water. SJRA is selling all of Houston's emergency water or releasing it. We need to think about preserving Lake Conroe and Houston's emergency supply, not thinking about how people at SJRA can make more money and blame everyone else but themselves for all the problems they are causing people including high water prices, spending money on projects no one needs/wants, overbilling people and lying to the public.

They just need competent, educated people to run the water levels off of facts, not political views or trying to mask their incompetence. SJRA's incompetence causes all the problems. They should have done a steady release that was constant starting at the beginning or since the storm was over, hold the water and release it slowly (it was literally sunny every day after they released all the water). They need to be sued for all the damage they are causing to everyone.

Biggest crooks I ve ever dealt with. Huge fees every month on our water bill so they can have more spending money. Can t wait for someone to win against them in court.

Stupid collective group of people who never seem to make the right decisions!!

These people are dishonest and have no respect for the law, and have no accountability. They want to have nothing to do with the first amendment and regularly block negative criticism of themselves.

Has successfully ruined lake Conroe by lowering the level by 2ft each year in August and September. (The prime months to use the lake) but it is too low and unsafe to do so in many parts of the lake.