November 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are links to discussions about the Corps of Engineers’ proposed solutions for too much stormwater flowing too fast into the federal flood control dams, Addicks and Barker<\/a>, in far west Houston. The unpopular proposals include deepening and widening Buffalo Bayou for some 22 miles from the dams to downtown Houston and building a dam and reservoir on Cypress Creek and the Katy Prairie<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Gold talks with Bob Freitag and Susan Chadwick, President and Executive Director of Save Buffalo Bayou on Oct. 22, 2020.<\/a> Freitag is the lead author of Floodplain Management: A New Approach for a New Era<\/a><\/em> and Director of the Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning and Research at the University of Washington. Here\u2019s the link<\/a> to the podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael Gold talks with Mary Anne Piacentini of the Katy Prairie Conservancy on Oct. 23, 2020<\/a>, about the conservancy\u2019s concerns and alternatives to the Corps\u2019 proposals. Piacentini is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the conservancy<\/a>. Here\u2019s the link to that podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sam Oser talks with Susan Chadwick of Save Buffalo Bayou on Oct. 24, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Nov. 18, 2020, Oser moderated a discussion hosted by Residents Against Flooding<\/a> between Piacentini and Chadwick about the Corps’ proposals. The conversation focused on natural functions and nature-based engineering and why they work better than more costly, traditional, and outdated structural approaches to flood management\u2014which can actually increase flooding and place more people in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n