Hurricane projects lag behind

'No silver bullet' to solve lingering problems caused by Harvey

HOUSTON - Large-scale projects long considered essential to easing Houston's flooding woes went to the top of the area's to-do list after Hurricane Harvey inundated large swathes of the nation's fourth-largest city.

Seven months later, local officials are still looking for funding to undertake plans that include a new reservoir, deeper and wider bayous and a coastal barrier system all of which have fallen victim to a lack of money or political will in the past.