{"id":464,"date":"2014-07-06T23:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=464"},"modified":"2017-10-15T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T21:16:50","slug":"a-moving-comment-from-preservation-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"A Moving Comment from Preservation Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 2014<\/p>\n<p>The period is now closed for public comment to the Army Corps of Engineers on the application from the Harris County Flood Control District to bulldoze the wild banks of Buffalo Bayou in and around Memorial Park. The fight for the life of <a title=\"Short, lovely film of the wild Buffalo Bayou that the BPA wants to destroy.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our beautiful southern bayou<\/a> grows stronger. We must continue to raise awareness about this little known project, educate our friends and neighbors about the senseless destruction that is planned, and try to change the minds of our politicians and civic leaders. See <a title=\"What To Do Now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?page_id=32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What To Do Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Army Corps received numerous comments opposing the project from experts in the field and ordinary citizens who cherish access to this unique treasure in the middle of our city. Among other things, the project violates <a href=\"www.twdb.texas.gov\/...\/1004831142_TexasRiparianAreas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state<\/a> (pdf) and <a title=\"federal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swg.usace.army.mil\/Portals\/26\/Level%201%20June%202013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal policy <\/a>(pdf) protecting <a href=\"http:\/\/dof.virginia.gov\/mgt\/riparian\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">riparian buffer <\/a>on our waterways.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a particularly eloquent comment sent to the ACE from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preservationtexas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Preservation Texas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>June 30, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dwayne Johnson<br \/>\nRegulatory Branch, CESWG-PE-RB<br \/>\nU.S. Army Corps of Engineers<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1229<br \/>\nGalveston, Texas 77553-1229<\/p>\n<p>Re: SWG-2012-01007 (Memorial Park Demonstration Project)<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Johnson:<\/p>\n<p>We write this letter to urge denial of the permit application referenced above.<\/p>\n<p>Preservation Texas included the site of the Memorial Park Demonstration Project on our 2014 Texas\u2019 Most Endangered Places list. The scope of the project far exceeds the limited erosion problem this particular stretch of Buffalo Bayou faces. The project should be narrowed to address only portions of the Bayou that are actively eroding and in a manner that does not destroy significant vegetation, rock outcroppings, potential archaeological sites and otherwise alters the slowly, naturally evolving course of the historic waterway by cutting and filling.<\/p>\n<p>A recent 14-mile paddle down the Bayou reveals that most of the erosion in the project area has been caused by the removal of trees. Coupled with increased water volumes caused by overdevelopment of areas in the Bayou\u2019s watershed, it becomes clear that the challenges of the Bayou extend beyond the waterway itself. A radical grading and replanting project does not address root causes.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Moving Comment from Preservation Texas\" href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?page_id=467\"><em>Read the rest.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 2014 The period is now closed for public comment to the Army Corps of Engineers on the application from the Harris County Flood Control District to bulldoze the wild banks of Buffalo Bayou in and around Memorial Park. The fight for the life of our beautiful southern bayou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,58,41,20,50,60,19,48,57,47,49,16,59,1,54],"tags":[62,61],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulldoze-2","category-camp-logan","category-cliffs","category-environment","category-erosion","category-federal","category-habitat","category-history","category-landmark","category-natural","category-preservation","category-riparian-2","category-state","category-uncategorized","category-vegetation","tag-federal-policy","tag-state-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}