Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our Jones Road community meeting on Tuesday! There’s a lot happening at this site right now, so we were so excited to have the opportunity to discuss it with you all. For those of you who didn’t catch the meeting, you can find the recording on YouTube. … Read More
Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our meeting on Tuesday where we went into detail on updates at the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site. For those of you who didn’t make the meeting, you can find the recording on YouTube here. Or keep reading for a summary of what we discussed! … Read More
It was great to catch up with everyone at this week’s town hall meeting! Thank you all for such an engaging discussion. For those of you who weren’t able to attend, you can find a recording on our YouTube channel here. Or keep reading for a summary of what we discussed! City of Houston Water … Read More
Project Summary: THEA has partnered with researchers at the Rice University School of Architecture to consolidate available data on toxins in our local environment and how they interact with flooding and runoff patterns in Harris County. This data existed previously across a myriad of spreadsheets and reports published by several different agencies. Our goal for … Read More
“It’s easy to make excuses for our health problems, such as our lifestyle or our diet, but when we’re looking at the bigger picture and we think about what we share in common in our communities, it’s our environment, it’s our land, our air and our water. So we need to hear from you, the … Read More
We are so sorry we couldn’t be live with you all last night! We hope the video recorded updates were helpful, and as always, please feel free to reach out at info@txhea.org with any questions that may have come up. For those of you who didn’t catch the video recording, you can find it on … Read More
Overview of the Jones Road Groundwater Plume Superfund Site (1:15) The Jones Road Superfund Site is a contaminated groundwater plume underneath a shopping center in northwest Harris County. A dry-cleaning business that formerly operated out of one of the units in the shopping center dumped their waste outside for years, resulting in toxic chemicals seeping … Read More
THEA is on a mission to reach 500 Health Survey responses by the end of May, and if you are a resident of Cypress, Texas near the Jones Road Ground Water Plume Superfund Site, we need your help. This coming May, we are writing to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) requesting data … Read More
If you are a resident of East Harris County near the San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund Site, we need your help. We are trying to reach 500 health survey responses by the end of May. This coming May, we are writing to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) requesting data on the incidence … Read More