Houston Boy Scout Saswat Pati, a member of Sam Houston Area Council Troop 55, has built and installed wooden boxes to distribute reusable mesh bags for collecting trash on Buffalo Bayou and Spring Creek.<\/p>\n
The project is part of a statewide project started by the Nueces River Authority called Up2U<\/a>. Pati, a sophomore at St. John\u2019s School in Houston, planned and executed the garbage bag project on Buffalo Bayou as part of his service requirement for obtaining the rank of Eagle Scout.<\/p>\n The wooden boxes have now been installed at four locations, including two on the 26-mile long Buffalo Bayou Paddling Trail<\/a> established by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which is the official beneficiary of the service project. The two Buffalo Bayou locations are Briar Bend and Woodway.<\/p>\n Officials with Harris County Precinct 3 refused to allow Pati to install boxes at the four Paddling Trail boat launches in Terry Hershey Park. In fact, county maps of Terry Hershey Park<\/a> do not show any boat launches in the park<\/a>.<\/p>\n Terry Hershey Park, named for conservationist and bayou preservationist Terry Hershey<\/a>, is in Harris County Commissioner Steve Radack<\/a>\u2019s Precinct 3.<\/p>\n However, in cooperation with the excellent Bayou Land Conservancy<\/a>, Commissioner Jack Cagle<\/a> did allow Pati’s garbage bag boxes to be installed at two locations on Spring Creek in Precinct 4. Those\u00a0 two locations\u00a0 are Pundt Park <\/a>and the Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center<\/a>. Precinct 4 also includes Buffalo Bayou as it flows past Memorial Park.<\/p>\n \u201cWith these Up2U bags, people will be able to clean up the river while they paddle,\u201d Pati wrote in a letter to Save Buffalo Bayou, which contributed to the project. \u201cUsers will make their own impact on the river. By doing this, I hope to increase the awareness of the condition of Houston\u2019s bayous and to equip all people to fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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