https://www.change.org/petitions/save-the-terry-hershey-park-forest A grass-roots group is asking city and county officials to go back to the drawing board on a plan to remove trees along Buffalo Bayou in Terry Hershey Park for the sake of detention basins. Save Our Forest started a petition on Nov. 10 calling upon the city of Houston and Harris County not to proceed with a $250,000 engineering study of the area between Eldridge Parkway and Wilcrest in Terry Hershey Park. Instead, the petition signers want the money to be spent on an engineering study of the Clodine Regional Detention Basin. Further, the petition calls upon the city of Houston as well as Harris and Fort Bend counties to jointly purchase and develop the Clodine basin, which would be in Fort Bend County. "If these steps are not taken, much of the riparian forest that makes Terry Hershey Park special will be lost ...," the petition states. By late Friday morning, 1,687 people had signed it online. The forested property in question is owned by the Harris County Flood Control District, said Alvin Wright, spokesman for the city's Public Works and Engineering Department. "We're asking them to allow us to provide some storm water detention along Buffalo Bayou, which migrates through that area over there," Wright said. "The residents are saying it's a park and they don't want any trees touched. Nothing has been approved or accepted or whatever else, so the dialogue continues." The city's adopted Capital Improvement Plan for 2014-2018 calls for $3.36 million to be spent in 2017 on construction of the proposed Buffalo Bayou Detention Basin. According to Save Our Forest's mission statement on its website http://www.briarforestsn.org/files/Save Our Forest Mission Statement new.pdf, most of the forest along Buffalo Bayou between Texas 6 and Beltway 8 is slated for removal under plans by the city's Public Works and Engineering Department and the Harris County Flood Control District. A flood control district study called Charting Buffalo calls for "very large tracts of trees" to be cut down to create detention basins, according to the group's mission statement. In earlier news coverage of the issue, a flood control district spokeswoman said the Charting Buffalo study lists 40 options to address flooding along Buffalo Bayou and parts of White Oak Bayou, including taking out forested areas for detention basins. The study covers a 32-mile stretch of Buffalo Bayou from Barker Reservoir to the Houston Ship Channel and seven miles of Lower White Oak Bayou. The Save Our Forest group maintains that there are effective alternatives to removing trees for a detention basin. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...chunk-of-4985619.php?cmpid=hpts#photo-5467636
My folks live right there and I see those Save the Forest signs in the neighborhood every time I go back to visit. I wasn't sure what part of the forest they were going to tear down but it appears to be between Wilcrest and Eldridge. My parents house has flooded a few times in the past 20 years since they live on the bayou tributary itself so I think there can be some good from this flood control measure. But the other part of me loves the nature of the area and Hershey Park is hands down the best running trail in all of Houston.
you know I'd be there GangaRocket but I'm holding down the front on range on legalizing pot in Boulder. It's slightly difficult let's do this
It sounds like they can apply some more effort and make the drainage basin in clodine in north ft bend county Sign the petition if yall haven't already. Thanks in advance
Colorado just postponed Real-Legal Sale until next summer. I've been told we were one signature short. So, all our friends with medicinal mj cards still rock our world. hmmm...conspiracy theoriest might say... ....wait...did you see that Dunk by Wiggins on Sportcenter right now. G1d damn. I'm gonna be so pissed if Utah gets either him or Parker. Utah can go f)ck themselves into next decade. ....ok,,,i'm back. What where we talking about
dude, don't let me highjack your thread. but to answer the question. Yes, I am joking....but not by much. I really want to start an Update thread about this. And you know, there are two sides of the story. I'm one of the few walking around Boulder Creek protecting the "No" vote until you prove the current mom and pops who started this won't get shafted. I'm in favor of major licensing obstacles that favor grandfathering all the cultivators and dispensoraries who created this to begin with. Note...we aren't newbies here. We have a system in place by heroes already. The just need the green light (yes, the GREEN light) to sell to anyone, card or not. I am against major pharma and California moving in to outsell them. Give them one year headstart (or two years) at meeting new demand.
Don't you think property values for all the residents that live in the proximity will go down? a flat easement for drainage is not a sight to look at.
What I don't understand is how setting up a drainage basin all the way in North Ft. Bend County will alleviate the flooding in the Hershey Park area and surrounding neighborhoods?
me either, but all of these waterways are connected in some way or other.. its probably like taking pressure off one part so the hershey area can operate more efficiently. i hope its possible because houston needs to keep its green spaces. especially old wooded ones that help make the community better
