District Profile

Brazoria County Drainage District Number Three (the District) was created by an order of the Commissioners Court on January 20, 1910. In 1929 the Texas Legislature recreated into a Conservation and Reclamation District with Senate Bill No. 24, and then in 1969 the District was reestablished and recreated as “Brazoria County Conservation and Reclamation District Number Three” by an order of the Texas House of the 61st Legislature Article 8280-476.

The District is empowered, among other things, to construct, to improve, and to maintain facilities necessary for the control of flood waters and navigation. The area of the District covers 211.55 square miles in the northern part of the county, plus 17,580 acres of water including: Halls Lake, Lost Bayou, Chocolate Bayou, and West Bay.

The District also covers approximately 600 miles of ditches which include the following:

Mustang Bayou, Chigger Creek, the upper end of Dickinson Bayou, Halls Bayou, and one half of Chocolate Bayou. The District is also responsible for drainage and maintenance of the many tributaries belonging to each of these ditches.