Mission Statement

Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 28, through the dedication of its Directors and Consultants, is committed to providing the highest quality service at the most economical costs to its customers and taxpayers.

Information for Property Owners and Homeowners Associations

There are currently 20 subdivisions within the boundaries of Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 28 (“BC MUD 28”). In most of these subdivisions, there are detention or retention ponds designed to hold and distribute storm water runoff.

Retention ponds hold water indefinitely, while detention ponds are dry. During storms both types of ponds help prevent flooding by holding excess runoff and slowly releasing the water into the City of Pearland storm drainage system. BC MUD 28 is responsible for ensuring that the ponds effectively perform the functions they were constructed for, namely the efficient handling of storm water.

As part of an ongoing program to ensure that the ponds are working as designed, BC MUD 28’s contractor, Storm Water Solutions, performs quarterly inspections of all detention and retention ponds in the district to include 2 pump stations. Necessary repairs and remediations are performed following the quarterly inspections. These repairs include overseeding, debris removal, removal of overgrown vegetation, and general repairs of equipment.

Beginning in 2019, BCMUD 28 began a project to remediate erosion in the districts’ retention ponds by installing shore sox to prevent shoreline erosion and over silting of the ponds. The first shore sox installation was the Stonebridge retention pond.

After a competitive bid process in early 2026, the board of BCMUD 28 approved a contract with Silt Solutions Inc. in the amount of $919,517.00 to install shore sox around the detention ponds in the Canterbury Park subdivision. This remediation effort is ongoing and the Capital Improvements Plan for the detention and retention ponds in BCMUD 28 estimates that erosion repairs over the next 10-15 years will amount to approximately $4.3 million dollars. Much of this cost estimate will involve the installation of shore sox around the retention ponds to prevent erosion.

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Changes to FEMA Flood Maps in the District

It has been 20-30 years since FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (“FIRMs”) were updated for Brazoria County. For the 18 subdivisions in BCMUD#28, the City of Pearland is currently using the Brazoria County FEMA FIRMs from 1989 and 1999.

FEMA updated the FIRMs for Brazoria County in 2019 and the updated FIRMs are pending approval by the County in December 2020.

With the updated maps, 3 of the subdivisions within BCMUD#28 are affected by the update which moves some of the properties in the subdivisions from Zone X (the 500-year flood plain) into Zone AE (the 100-year flood plain). This change could affect the flood insurance rates and property values of homes affected if the changes stand.

The affected homes are as follows:

  • Province Village – 12 lots in tracts B and C; and
  • Highland Crossing – 93 lots in sections 1, 3, and 4; and
  • Canterbury Park – 86 lots in section 6.

FEMA provides property owners the opportunity to protest the maps and request changes through a Letter of Map Amendment (“LOMA”). While FEMA does not charge a fee to review a LOMA request, requesters are responsible for providing the required mapping and survey information specific to their property. The process requires that a land surveyor, engineer, or architect certify the elevation information in an elevation certificate (FEMA Form 086-0-33). In 2019, the average cost of an elevation certificate was approximately $600.

At its December 2020 meeting, the Board of Directors of BCMUD#28 approved a contract with LJA Engineering Inc. to conduct a survey and file LOMA requests with FEMA for the affected properties in Province Village and Highland Crossing. The cost of the survey will be paid by BCMUD#28 at no cost to the affected property owners. The survey is expected to begin shortly and will involve the use of drone technology to survey the areas affected.

For those affected properties in Canterbury Park, Section 6, the developer of the subdivision, KB Homes, will be submitting the LOMA to FEMA and absorbing the costs of any required mapping and survey information.

On May 18, 2021 FEMA approved the Letter of Map Amendment for the affected lots in Highland Crossing putting them back into Zone X. The Letter of Map Amendment will serve as proof of Flood Zone for flood insurance purposes as FEMA will not be amending the already approved maps. The Province Village LOMA request is pending.