HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- It's been almost exactly one year since Harris County voters narrowly approved a tax increase to pay for flood maintenance.

Last year, commissioners estimated it would cost the average homeowner about $60 every year, depending on home values.

Belia Fredenberg has lived next to Little Cypress Creek for 29 years.

"I've seen it where it overflows from the back to the front because there's no more space out here," she said.

Maintenance crews are now working to shore up the creek by connecting it to a ditch.

"If it was left unchecked and kept moving upstream, it would erode out and start eroding into some of these homes, backyards, and infrastructure," Jason Krahn, the Harris County Flood District's chief infrastructure and operations officer, said.

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