The Harris County Flood Control District has finished a $10.5 million channel-widening project along Mud Gully, also known as Beamer Ditch, in the Clear Creek watershed that drains through League City.

The district announced the completion Aug. 27 and said it held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia. The Mud Gully Channel Conveyance Improvements Project widened the channel to 45 feet, extended concrete lining approximately 4,200 feet downstream along Beamer Ditch to the Beamer Road bridge and stabilized the banks to move stormwater faster during heavy rain.

The project sits in Harris County Precinct 2, not within League City limits. But the Clear Creek watershed spans portions of Harris, Galveston, Brazoria and Fort Bend counties and includes 16 cities, League City among them, according to the flood control district. Improvements upstream reduce flood risk downstream.

"For far too long, communities downstream, like those in our Bay Area, have been especially vulnerable to flooding," Garcia said in a statement marking the completion. "By rolling up our sleeves and improving drainage, we're ensuring that the neighborhoods hardest hit by floods are better prepared for the major storms we know are on the way."

Flood Control District Executive Director Dr. Tina Petersen said the channel work pairs with the South Belt Stormwater Detention Basin, completed in 2022, to reduce flood risk and set the stage for future investments in the broader Clear Creek Federal Flood Risk Management Project.

That federal project is a partnership between the flood control district and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, funded under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA18). Harris County voters approved $2.5 billion in flood-reduction bonds on Aug. 25, 2018, and the two agencies signed a Project Partnership Agreement in June 2019.

Rebel Contracting Inc. built the Mud Gully improvements. Construction ran from the first quarter of 2021 through the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the district's completion notice. The notice, published Aug. 27, 2026, does not address the gap between the construction end date and the announcement.

The completion comes days after Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Sept. 1 near the Texas-Louisiana border. League City recorded just 0.02 inches of rain from the storm, according to The Daily News.

The district has not announced a timeline for the next phase of the Clear Creek Federal Flood Risk Management Project.