Planned Trump border wall near Texas national park could create flooding risk, suit says

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Source: The Independent

Friday 19 June 2026 21:12 EDT


Trump administration plans to build parts of the border wall near Big Bend National Park could expose a small town to “potentially devastating” flooding, a federal lawsuit argues.

The suit, filed Wednesday by the municipal development district of Presidio, Texas, against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, claims that the administration plans to replace an existing earthen levee protecting the area with segments of the 30-foot-tall concrete border wall.

“If not properly planned and carried out, construction on the federal flood-control works in Presidio could compromise their integrity and leave the region vulnerable to deadly flash floods capable of destroying infrastructure, homes, farmland, and agriculture,” the suit claims.

The district argues the Trump administration has begun handing out millions of dollars in contracts for wall construction in the area, moving forward without getting proper permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to alter a federal water control project under the Rivers and Harbors Act. In 2008, the binational International Boundary and Water Commission invested millions of dollars into a flood control system around Presidio, after Tropical Depression Lowell caused mass flooding in the area and homes were filled with up to 10 feet of water, prompting the governor to make a disaster declaration.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/border-wall-big-bend-texas-flooding-b2999361.html

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Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/PMDD-v-DHS-Complaint-.pdf


RELATED

Link to Rep. Doggett PRESS RELEASE - Rep. Doggett Condemns Trump's Attempt to Waive Environmental Protections in Big Bend National Park

Link to Congressional LETTER (PDF) - https://doggett.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/doggett-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/quill-letter-l37359-oppose-environmental-waivers-in-big-bend-nps-version-2-06-16-2026-10-44-am.pdf

[brer cat]

1. Condisdering the consequences of their actions is not

a trump administration strong suit; in fact, it appears to be nonexistent.

[poozwah]

2. not to worry

trump’s FEMA will come to the rescue if flooding should occur.

[Norrrm]

3. What do you mean "Planned Trump border wall"?... This must be another grift for kickbacks.

Donald said the wall is complete.

You know; the wall that was to keep them from coming in.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024/index.html

“We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more."

[efhmc]

4. Hideous and horrible. Do not think it can/will happen.