Lawmakers grill Upper Guadalupe River Authority, call lack of preparedness ‘disturbing’

Lawmakers grill Upper Guadalupe River Authority, call lack of preparedness ‘disturbing’

Lawmakers grilled Upper Guadalupe River Authority general manager Tara Bushnoe about the authority’s lack of flood safety measures during a public hearing on Wednesday.The eleven and a half hour meeting included a discussion surrounding an article published by the Houston Chronicle, detailing the river authority’s decision to raise property taxes in the watershed nearly 50 percent after a 1987 flood killed 10 teenagers.The tax increase funded a …