Kashmere Gardens
This map shows the elevation of the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood which shows how the difference in elevation is pretty insignificant and cannot be the cause of the flooding. The flood way was made transparent to confirm the elevation difference underneath but it is almost the same throughout the whole city of Houston,not just the neighborhood. The majority of Kashmere Gardens is inside a flood risk area, either the floodway or the 100-year floodplain shown in the map. Kashmere Gardens has Hunting Bayou stream, along the east and north border of the super neighborhood and which divides the neighborhood. The Hunting Bayou stream is the only floodway in Kashmere Gardens and it must be kept free from obstruction to avoid the risk of flooding.
This map shows the soils within the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood which are:
1-Bg Bernard-Urban land complex
which is somewhat poorly drained
2-Gu Gessner occasionally ponded-Urban land complex
which is poorly drained
3-Lu Lake Charles-Urban land complex
which is moderately well drained
4-ModA Mocarey-Urban land complex
which is moderately well drained
5-Mu Verland-Urban land complex
which is somewhat poorly drained
6-PITX Pits
7-URLX Urban land
There are not many soils compared to other neighborhoods we are studying and although some soils such as #3 and #4 are moderately well drained, their areas are still flooded, with the only somewhat consistent non-flooded area being urban areas. This means there must be multiple reasons for the flooding and not the soil by itself.
The Kashmere Gardens super neighborhood is mostly residential single family houses, which is surrounded by F1,which is commercials land use. The more the residential and commercial areas, the more the urbanization, and the more chance of affecting flooding. Both land use map and soil map make the connection that urban areas are somewhat consistently not flooded and that it’s the residential areas that are flooded for the most part.