League City Mayor Nick Long met with Oaks of Clear Creek subdivision residents to explain a $3.8 million detention pond and walking trail now under construction in their neighborhood.

Long said on X on Tuesday, Sept. 15 that the pond will serve a subdivision hit hard during Hurricane Harvey. The walking trail will connect the neighborhood to the nearby library and pool and give League City police officers a place to walk during breaks, he said.

The project creates a 60-acre-foot detention pond on 15 acres north of the subdivision, with access from State Highway 3, according to the city's drainage improvement projects page. A new storm sewer line along Coleman Boylan Drive will direct stormwater into the pond. The city funded the work through voter-approved Proposition A bonds.

Construction is already underway.

City Council unanimously awarded nearly $4 million in combined contracts on July 28 to engineering firm UES Professional Solutions 44 and Houston-based contractor iCON GC, Community Impact reported. iCON GC won the construction portion as the lowest of 12 bidders at $3.6 million. Bids ranged up to $6.1 million.

The trail component grew out of a push by Council Member Tommy Cones. At the July 28 meeting, Cones said he had received three resident calls about walkability near the area. "If you look at Oaks Clear Creek, there's nothing in that area to [walk on] … Highway 3 is about it," Cones told the council, according to Community Impact.

Long backed the idea at the same meeting, directing city staff to develop options to make the pond a community amenity rather than what he called "mosquito pits."

Cones later amended the city's fiscal year 2026-27 budget at the Sept. 8 council meeting to add the trail system to the Capital Improvement Plan, with connectivity to Highway 3 in the CenterPoint subdivision, according to Community Impact. He asked staff to find funding for design in 2027 and construction in 2028.

Long also said at the Sept. 8 meeting that he had met a Houston Police Department officer living in the subdivision who supports the project and hopes to work with League City police to protect homeowners near the trailheads.

The detention pond targets substantial completion by August 2027. The trail's design phase is targeted for 2027, with construction in 2028.