{"id":322,"date":"2014-06-12T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=322"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:21:21","slug":"if-we-dont-destroy-the-bayou-now-it-will-fall-in-on-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"If we don’t destroy Buffalo Bayou now, it will “fall in on itself.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 12, 2014<\/p>\n

Informative article by David Theis in the Texas Observer<\/em><\/a> June 10 about the project to destroy Buffalo Bayou in order to “restore” it. Includes some wild claims by the executive director of the Memorial Park Conservancy that “the bayou is going to fall in on itself” if we don’t bulldoze it first. Yes, as difficult as it is to believe, not only does the Memorial Park Conservancy officially support this nonsensical plan to destroy the riparian forest in Memorial Park (even if all its members don’t), the organization even helped create it. It’s almost as if they think Memorial Park has too many trees or something.<\/p>\n

Please note that the project length is 6,600 linear feet along the bayou, plus another 800 feet in a lovely tributary of the Hogg Bird Sanctuary, not 5,800 feet as reported in the article. (We know it’s hard to keep up: the Harris County Flood Control District keeps changing its plans.) However, the 18,000-year-old bayou will end up 800 feet shorter if the county and its odd allies have their way.<\/p>\n

Also that magnificent high bluff in the bird sanctuary is not in any part a result of recent erosion, unless your time frame is several thousand years. The county plan would dig up most of that beautiful tributary you see from the top of the bluff and fill in our amazing high precipice somehow. Why? Because, erosion! Next project: the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n

Below is the county’s map of the riparian areas to be excavated and filled in. Yellow is “cut” and orange is “fill.”<\/p>\n

Read the Texas Observer article.<\/a><\/p>\n

And here is an earlier excellent article from the Texas Observer<\/a> in 2002 questioning the interests of some of the movers and shakers behind the Buffalo Bayou Partnership’s development of Buffalo Bayou east of Shepherd. Some of those names are familiar. Like Mike Garver, a member of the board of the Bayou Preservation Association<\/a> and a property owner on Crestwood Drive whose bayou frontage is being “restored” by the taxpayers in this project promoted by the BPA. Garver, former chairman of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, is CEO of BRH-Garver Construction, whose major clients<\/a> include, oh, look, surprise, the Harris County Flood Control District, the Army Corps of Engineers, the City of Houston, and KBR, the engineering contractor for the project.<\/p>\n

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Harris County’s 2013 map of where they plan to dig out Buffalo Bayou and fill it in. Yellow is excavate. Orange is fill in. On the south bank is the River Oaks Country Club golf course. On the north is Memorial Park, some private homes, and the Hogg Bird Sanctuary.<\/p><\/div>\n

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