{"id":8396,"date":"2020-04-20T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2020-04-22T22:42:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T03:42:12","slug":"first-hand-report-on-improvements-to-the-federal-dams-on-buffalo-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=8396","title":{"rendered":"First-Hand Report on Improvements to the Federal Dams on Buffalo Bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Tour of Barker and Addicks Dams<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Editor’s note:\u00a0 Barker and Addicks dams are for flood-control only<\/a>. Operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, the floodgates are closed to hold back stormwater flowing into Buffalo Bayou only when there is a major rain downstream. (See also here.<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Cynthia Neely of Residents Against Flooding<\/a>, Houston, Texas, April 17, 2020<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I organized a meeting and tour with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to see what has been done to improve Barker and Addicks dams since Hurricane Harvey. There were eight of us, representing various HOAs and organizations. We weren\u2019t there to criticize or talk about the past, but rather to learn first-hand about what upgrades have been made.<\/p>\n

The tour and interview were recorded on video. [Coming up soon.]<\/p>\n

Richard Long, the Army Corps\u2019 Natural Resource Management Specialist, spent a great deal of time showing us maps and information on his office computer. He answered some very tough questions. Many of us had flooded when the flood gates were opened after Hurricane Harvey.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of this report.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The view from the top of Barker Dam in west Houston. Photo by Cynthia Neely.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Tour of Barker and Addicks Dams Editor’s note:\u00a0 Barker and Addicks dams are for flood-control only. Operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, the floodgates are closed to hold back stormwater flowing into Buffalo Bayou only when there is a major rain downstream. (See also here.)   By Cynthia…<\/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-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","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=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8450,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}