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Old 08-31-2019, 12:55 PM
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https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07...coast-barrier/

Interesting idea.

"...In the meantime, Rice University is pushing a plan that it says could become a reality faster and more cheaply than the coastal barrier system. While the Galveston Bay Park Plan isn’t designed to protect as much land as the coastal barrier system, the chief spokesperson for the university’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center — known as SSPEED — says it would offer a significantly higher level of protection than the coastal barrier system for the most populated and industrialized areas in the region.

The park plan, conceived in 2015, calls for the use of clay dredged from the Houston Ship Channel, where a $1 billion deepening and widening project is in the works to accommodate more and larger ships, to create a 25-foot-tall levee along the shipping lane, which is the nation’s busiest. Additional dredged material would be piled behind it to form parkland. The **** would connect to an existing levee at Texas City, which would be raised to 25 feet from 17 feet...."
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Old 08-31-2019, 07:44 PM
 
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That dredged stuff might be poison.
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Old 08-31-2019, 11:42 PM
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That dredged stuff might be poison.
All the better to leave it out in the bay, right?

Pretty massive change to the bay creating all those islands. But it is interesting.
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Old 09-04-2019, 12:17 PM
 
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Similar to the mountains of 'stuff' that has been piled up along the 225 Pasadena freeway for 75 years. Don't mess with it !
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Old 09-05-2019, 10:20 AM
 
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I remember all the years the ship channel was considered a fire hazard and several times there were concerns about dredging up the poison muck around the Texas City plants that pumped out heavy metals for 20 years.


How can water be a fire hazard ? But do believe the experts on this.
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Old 09-10-2019, 09:12 AM
 
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Well Cleveland’s river caught on fire once... I’d hope we don’t want that happening here too. Though I believe it is a hell of a lot more polluted up that way vs here.
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