As City of Houston water department workers Bob Richards, left, and Dustin Hartman look on, Dakota Bohannon of Rost Concrete Pumping in Marshfield uses a remote control device to pour concrete over a sewer line across Brushy Creek (behind Sharp Shooters Gun & Pawn on Walnut Street) that was exposed by record flooding in the spring of 2017. Before the project, city crews had dug debris out from under and around the line and created a makeshift dam to reroute the creek flow. Funding for the work was secured from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Concrete was provided by River Rock Redi-Mix in Houston.
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