7 months after Harvey, flood-control projects' fate unclear

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 swaths 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 costal barrier system — all of which have fallen victim to a lack of money or political will in the past.Yet local leaders insist