{"id":1884,"date":"2015-08-12T00:34:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T05:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2017-10-09T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:54:03","slug":"the-piles-of-concrete-came-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"The Piles of Concrete Came Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Country Club Armors High Banks with Chunks of Rubble<\/h3>\n

August 12, 2015<\/p>\n

For months we watched with suspense the towering piles of concrete riprap. They hung heavily over the edge of a high bank on the south side of Buffalo Bayou near the downstream end of one of the loveliest natural stretches of the bayou in the city. It\u2019s a long stretch of the bayou that the Harris County Flood Control District wants to bulldoze and \u201crestore\u201d to a \u201cmore natural state,\u201d so we were apprehensive.<\/p>\n

A row of small telltale colored flags had first appeared near the waterline here and upstream at the upper limit of the area targeted for flood control\u2019s highly destructive Memorial Park Demonstration Project.<\/p>\n

The south bank of the nearly 1.5 mile project area is owned by the River Oaks Country Club, which is a one-third partner in the $6 million public project initiated and promoted by the Bayou Preservation Association.<\/a> The club, which has nearly completed a renovation of its golf course on the bayou, had long threatened to armor its banks with riprap if the \u201cstabilization\u201d project didn\u2019t go through.<\/p>\n

And now the club has carried through on its threat, laying down black plastic sheeting on the steep banks at those two locations downstream and upstream, distributing chunks of concrete on the slopes, and covering the blocks with dirt. Club member Steve Lindley, who is overseeing the riprap work as well as the golf course upgrade for the club, said that the plastic sheeting is porous and biodegradable and that club plans to seed the dirt with grass to keep it from washing away and eventually to plant it with native vegetation such as chili pequin.<\/p>\n

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\"Concrete<\/a>

Concrete riprap, dirt, plastic, and straw boom on the south bank of Buffalo Bayou at water’s edge. Photo taken Aug. 9, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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