Construction on Westheimer has been hampered by rain as of late. Frequent rain and several severe rain events over the past week has made most construction activities difficult.

Over the past week, however, crews were able to complete the storm sewer connection at Shepherd that will tie Upper Kirby storm improvements on Westheimer into City of Houston storm improvements on Shepherd. Crews had a brief window to make this connection in coordination with the Shepherd contractor and skipped a small section in order to get the work done. This week, crews will complete the tie in between Persa and Peckham completing the main trunk line. New inlets and inlet leads remain to be placed before this is a fully functioning system, but flood relief is well within sight.

Overlapping concrete work between Westgate and Dickey has again been stalled by weather, however, crews anticipate framing for concrete this week. Excavation and concrete preparation activities will also be underway this week between Kingston and Greenbriar. The goal is still to open the roadway to new pavement between Kingston and Dickey early in May with the entire north side of the roadway opened back to traffic in June.