{"id":2109,"date":"2015-10-08T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2015-10-09T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T05:28:08","slug":"update-on-puzzling-project-to-bulldoze-wild-buffalo-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Update on Puzzling Project to Bulldoze Wild Buffalo Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damaging, Expensive, Contradictory Plan Still Threatens<\/h3>\n

Conflicts Still Apparent, Purpose Still Unclear<\/h4>\n

No Permit Yet<\/em><\/h4>\n

October 8, 2015<\/p>\n

The Harris County Flood Control District has responded to largely critical public comments to the Army Corps of Engineers about Flood Control’s misguided project to destroy one of the last natural stretches of Buffalo Bayou in Houston, a most remarkable asset to have in the middle of a city. The Corps is reviewing the Flood Control District\u2019s responses, says Jayson Hudson, who has been the Corps\u2019 Galveston District project manager for the permit application.<\/p>\n

Flood Control must apply for a permit from the Corps of Engineers because the Clean Water Act<\/a> requires the Corps to ensure that projects on federal waters do not damage the health of our waters. Federal waters<\/a> are defined as navigable streams (Buffalo Bayou) up to the Ordinary High Water Mark<\/a>, their tributaries and adjacent wetlands, all of which form the great living veins and arteries of our limited water supply. Some studies argue that all riparian areas <\/a>, the highly biologically diverse natural gardens and forests along stream banks so vital for clean water, should be considered protected wetlands <\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This beautiful meander, a natural storm water detention area, would be filled in and graded, the woods and high cliffs destroyed, and the entire floodplain area obliterated by a permanent road. Aerial photo on Oct. 3, 2015, by Jim Olive<\/p><\/div>\n

Read the rest of this post.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damaging, Expensive, Contradictory Plan Still Threatens Conflicts Still Apparent, Purpose Still Unclear No Permit Yet October 8, 2015 The Harris County Flood Control District has responded to largely critical public comments to the Army Corps of Engineers about Flood Control’s misguided project to destroy one of the last natural stretches…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,130,52,18,66,254,65,252,177,17,199,134,69,68,202,41,260,160,153,21,155,154,20,50,60,38,168,274,253,11,53,179,19,236,116,239,47,217,218,225,206,257,256,35,273,205,16,264,75,164,193,43,78,59,131,4,237,1,54,258,183,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armor","category-army-corps-of-engineers","category-bacteria","category-banks-2","category-bayou-preservation-association","category-big-gulch","category-bpa","category-buffalo-bayou-park","category-buffer","category-bulldoze-2","category-canopy","category-channelize","category-city","category-city-council","category-clean-water-act","category-cliffs","category-corps","category-demonstration","category-developers","category-ecosystem","category-energy-corridor","category-engineers","category-environment","category-erosion","category-federal","category-film","category-flood-control","category-floodplain","category-fonteno","category-forest","category-golf-course","category-grass","category-habitat","category-maintenance","category-memorial-park","category-monitoring","category-natural","category-natural-channel-design","category-natural-stable-channel-design","category-nature","category-navigable","category-ohwm","category-ordinary-high-water-mark","category-permit","category-plants","category-public","category-riparian-2","category-riprap","category-river-oaks-country-club","category-sanctuary","category-sand","category-sandstone","category-scientific","category-state","category-texas-commission-on-environmental-quality","category-trees","category-tributary","category-uncategorized","category-vegetation","category-wetland","category-willows","category-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}