{"id":4696,"date":"2018-01-29T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2018-01-29T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T07:31:25","slug":"magic-fish-and-failed-erosion-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=4696","title":{"rendered":"Magic Fish and Failed Erosion Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On Buffalo Bayou<\/h3>\n<p>Jan. 28, 2018<\/p>\n<p>We paddled down Buffalo Bayou recently to see what we could see. It\u2019s been a hard winter, and the worst flood in history, so it wasn\u2019t glamorous. We did encounter a couple of fish, a lot of trash and mussel shells still, some fallen trees and wayward telephone poles, and numerous examples of expensive landscaping and erosion control projects gone wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Note to property owners, public and private: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?page_id=4661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">we have slumping on Buffalo Bayou<\/a>. Banks will slide down and away, especially if you remove trees and vegetation, landscape, irrigate, and build too close to the bank. Not much to be done about slumping, which is vertical erosion. Try to convince your neighbor not to armor their banks with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crjc.org\/pdffiles\/streamstab.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concrete, rubble, or sheet metal, which will only make things worse for you and everyone else.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We put in at muddy Woodway in Memorial Park for a trip all the way past the park, the Hogg Bird Sanctuary, and Buffalo Bayou Park, taking out below the Sabine Bridge. It wasn\u2019t easy getting our canoes there. Some cursed coincidence (cold weather?) had caused all kinds of vehicles to break down at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where Does All That Sediment Come From?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was still a large amount of sediment piled up high on the banks. Rivers naturally deposit sediment on the banks and floodplain. It\u2019s why floodplains are so fertile. (And why in ancient times people wisely moved out of the way of floods.) But people have been asking where all this sandy sediment comes from. Some of it washes out from landscaping and construction sites and other areas that have been disturbed. But erosion is a natural evolutionary process. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pny7qnl06hjeyhv\/Helm%20explaining%20sandstone%2C%20sediment%201.21.18.m4v?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is geologist Tom Helm, who was leading our expedition, explaining the origin of sand and the different kinds of sandstone in Buffalo Bayou.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4689\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/pny7qnl06hjeyhv\/Helm%20explaining%20sandstone%2C%20sediment%201.21.18.m4v?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4689 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4689\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tom-Helm-explaining-sandstone-and-sediment-in-Buffalo-Bayou-1.21.18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tom-Helm-explaining-sandstone-and-sediment-in-Buffalo-Bayou-1.21.18.png 576w, https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Tom-Helm-explaining-sandstone-and-sediment-in-Buffalo-Bayou-1.21.18-170x300.png 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geologist Tom Helm explains sandstone and sediment in Buffalo Bayou. 1.21.18<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?page_id=4659\"><em>Read the rest of this post.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Buffalo Bayou Jan. 28, 2018 We paddled down Buffalo Bayou recently to see what we could see. It\u2019s been a hard winter, and the worst flood in history, so it wasn\u2019t glamorous. We did encounter a couple of fish, a lot of trash and mussel shells still, some fallen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","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=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}