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	Harris County Flood Control District - Buffalo Bayou Watershed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Buffalo Bayou watershed is located in west-central Harris County and drains an area that is mostly within the City of Houston and, to a lesser degree, the Memorial Villages.
		Buffalo Bayou is the single primary stream within the watershed and also the sole outlet for the Addicks and Barker reservoirs.
		Buffalo Bayou downstream of Beltway 8 is heavily wooded and in a natural state.
	www.hcfcd.org /L_buffalobayou.html (357 words)

	Buffalo Bayou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bayou is spring-fed and rises west of Houston near Katy, Texas.
		The Buffalo Bayou's main impoundment is the Barker Reservoir at the Barker Dam which regulates the bayou's flow.
		The original Port of Houston was located at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou in downtown Houston near the University of Houston-Downtown campus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buffalo_Bayou (491 words)

	CLEAN Comments - Buffalo Bayou: River of Dreams
		Historically, Steven F. Austin designated Buffalo Bayou as the southern border of his colony; the Texas revolution was won at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River, the Allen Brothers considered it a navigable system from Galveston Island to the new town they would later call Houston.
		The environmental story of Buffalo Bayou unfortunately portrays how the incredibly diverse, rich, yet delicate habitats and ecosystems were altered and to a great degree destroyed by the actions of early fur trappers and later settlers who did not understand or practice conservation.
		Buffalo Bayou is in a physiographic province of Texas called the Gulf Coast Plain, and until recent geologic times was inundated by the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.cleanhouston.org /comments/buffalo_bayou/history.htm (1232 words)

	AIArchitect, June 30, 2006 - Project Watch \| Down on the Blue Bayou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Buffalo Bayou and downtown Houston are in the midst of a 20-year, $800 million beautification and redevelopment plan, masterminded by the nonprofit Buffalo Bayou Partnership, an amalgam of public and private partners, and the City of Houston.
		One of the first major projects of the Buffalo Bayou master plan is finished: Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade, a 23-acre park in the heart of Houston that is now the cornerstone of the bayou and the downtown revitalization.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership is continuing its leadership in developing its long-range master plan to upgrade the Buffalo Bayou, the natural surrounding landscape, and the economy of downtown Houston through development.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek06/0630/0630pw_buffalo.cfm (1668 words)

	History of Buffalo Bayou
		The Bayou was too shallow and narrow to support large ocean-going vessels and steamers and competed with Galveston for transportation supremacy.
		After the lining of White Oak Bayou with concrete, local residents were in outrage and were determined to prevent the similar lining of Buffalo Bayou.
		Today, the 52-mile stretch of Buffalo Bayou is the nation’s number one port in foreign cargo and one of the largest ports in the world.
	www.buffalobayou.org /historybayou.html (1122 words)

	buffalo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Buffalo (city, New York), city in western New York at the eastern tip of Lake Erie and seat of Erie County.
		Buffalo is located at the mouth of the...
		Buffalo (oxen), wild or domesticated oxen native to Asia and Africa.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=buffalo (214 words)

	Buffalo Bayou
		The Buffalo Bayou Watershed, part of the Buffalo San Jacinto drainage system lies in the western portion of metropolitan Houston, Texas.
		In addition, the Bayou is underutilized for recreation due to a lack of waterfront access, continuity of trails and a poor public image.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership, a coalition of community groups and governmental agencies, has taken leadership in developing a long range plan to upgrade the environment and economy of the Watershed and its streams.
	www.umass.edu /ecologicalcities/watershed/buffbayou.htm (183 words)

	Bayou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bayous are usually located in low-lying areas, for example in the Mississippi River delta region of the southern United States.
		Bayou Country is most closely associated with Cajun (Acadian French) and Creole (mixed French, African, and Indian) cultural groups native to the Gulf Coast region generally stretching from Houston, Texas to Mobile, Alabama with its center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Houston, Texas is known as the "Bayou City," primarily because of the massive, muddy, miles-long Buffalo Bayou that twists and turns its way through the fourth largest city in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bayou (244 words)

	RUSREZ -- "BUFFALO BAYOU"
		Over the years the bayou has become a dumpsite and waste discharge canal -- to the point where anyone swimming in, canoeing on or otherwise touching the bayou does so at his or her own risk.
		Buffalo Bayou's water is fouled by trash, chemicals, sewage and other compounds which require oxygen to decompose.
		Another early visitor to Houston, Edward King, described the bayou as it appeared in 1873: The bayou which leads from Houston to Galveston is overhung by lofty and graceful trees of all sorts, and one may sail for miles along the channel with the heavy, passionate fragrance of the queen f lower drifting about him.
	gigharbor.com /rusty/bufbay.html (1196 words)

	CLEAN Comments - Buffalo Bayou: River of Dreams
		Anglo-Americans had explored the Buffalo Bayou and San Jacinto River area as members of the various filibustering expeditions launched from New Orleans between 1815 and 1820.
		Since Galveston Island and the Gulf shore were forbidden to Anglo settlement, Buffalo Bayou was established as part of the southeastern border for the colony.
		The Buffalo Bayou Railway crossed the area to facilitate the shipment of cotton and sugar.
	www.cleanhouston.org /comments/buffalo_bayou/history3.htm (2242 words)

	Houston Heritage
		To prove the bayou navigable, they arranged for the steamboat Laura M to carry supplies from Galveston to their fledgling port in January 1837.
		After the war and the yellow fever epidemic in 1867, the bayou was dredged to a depth of nine feet to clear the way for larger ships.
		This new 23-acre segment of the Buffalo Bayou Walk bordered by the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts and Bayou Place on the east and the 198-unit Sabine Lofts on the west.
	www.houstontx.gov /hr/savvypages/sum06/sum06_heritage.htm (880 words)

	Dodson Associates - Buffalo Bayou
		By interlacing green and urban environments, the rehabilitation of the Buffalo Bayou is interconnected with the improvement of its nearby neighborhoods and streets.
		By creating a Bayou that is accessible to pedestrians and usable for recreation, the city gains an invaluable resource and visual amenity.
		Changing the physical appearance of the Buffalo Bayou will bring about a change in the civic image of Houston that will be integral to the city's revitalization.
	www.dodsonassociates.com /projects/buffalo.html (455 words)

	UMI-Buffalo Bayou Partnership & Port of Houston Launch New Trash Skimmer Vessel, "Mighty Tidy"
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership and its partners were the impetus behind a $6.5 billion 20 year master plan to redevelop Houston's historic waterway into a pedestrian-oriented waterfront district.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership demonstrated a keen awareness of the opportunity for promoting its master plan objectives in how it implemented the trash skimmer project.
		Aaron Tuley, Director of Planning for the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, noted his satisfaction with the skimmer's performance, stating "This vessel's trash-collecting capability has far exceeded all of our working assumptions regarding the quantity of trash that can be collected in a given amount of time.
	www.trashskimmer.com /mighty_tidy.htm (610 words)

	Trust for Public Land--Conservation and Parks for People.
		The new parkland is included in the Buffalo Bayou and Beyond master plan as green space connected by a hike and bike trail to Hidalgo Park and the new Tony Marron Park and North York Boat Launch Facility.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that oversees Buffalo Bayou improvements, incorporating conservation and development into every project.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership along with The City of Houston, Harris County and Harris County Flood Control District recently unveiled a 20-year plan to redevelop Buffalo Bayou into a pedestrian-oriented waterfront district.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=17776 (925 words)

	People's Guide to Houston
		The history of the bayou is unknown to virtually all over who drove on the many bridges that cover it.
		The Bayou City returned with over 350 Union prisoners to a returning party made up of many other ships that were anchored in the bayou at the time.
		In this instance, the spirit of America is a bayou and the surrounding park is its citizens.
	www.uh.edu /~marnold/profiles/braydprofile.html (1483 words)

	Paddle Places for Houston
		Buffalo Bayou in its dredged-out lower reaches is the Houston Ship Channel through Galveston Bay and into the Gulf of Mexico.
		Alternate putins are at Highway 6 and Wilcrest.
		This stretch of the bayou is also the most natural and scenic.
	www.tamug.edu /paddler/buffalo_bayou_source.html (657 words)

	City of Houston -- Houston Bikeway Program -- Projects and Phases -- Buffalo Bayou Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Buffalo Bayou Trail segment, between Shepherd and Sabine consists of 4.8 miles of bayou trail along the north and south of the bayou.
		The Buffalo Bayou Trail consists of a 2-mile trail on green space along the bayou that continues east to the Buffalo Bayou Heritage Corridor trails providing a scenic bayou trail from Shepherd, on the west.
		This part of the bayou is in the downtown area, meandering between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive, on the west.
	www.publicworks.cityofhouston.gov /bikeways/buffalobayoutrail.htm (173 words)

	Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area, H.R. 1776
		The bill authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a suitability and feasibility study to determine if the area known as Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas could be designated as a national heritage area.
		Through that work, and from brief reviews of planning documents and activities surrounding the Bayou, it is clear that this area of Houston was central to the creation of the city.
		The Bayou has now become a focal point for downtown Houston, encouraging its residents to enjoy, use, and appreciate their great resources today as the city continues to renew and define itself.
	www.nps.gov /legal/testimony/107th/buffbayu.htm (1027 words)

	A Bayou Runs Through It - On the Bookshelf
		As the bayou picks up volume and winds across the prairie toward Houston’s outskirts, the touch of human hands begins to appear in the presence of plowed fields, livestock, and picturesque farms.
		At last the bayou edges into the city, almost unnoticed until it flows beneath 610 West to form the southern boundary of Memorial Park.
		After that, the bayou again passes from casual view as it makes an ever-widening approach to the industrialized precincts downstream.
	www.rice.edu /sallyport/2003/spring/bookshelf/bayou.html (672 words)

	Harris County Flood Control District - Carpenters Bayou Watershed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The bayou parallels the East Sam Houston Tollway and passes through Channelview.
		The lower end of Carpenters Bayou is tidally influenced and therefore vulnerable to storm surge flooding.
		The main channel of Carpenters Bayou from Market Street to the Houston Ship Channel is heavily vegetated and, for the most part, inaccessible.
	www.hcfcd.org /l_carpentersbayou.html (278 words)

	Congressman Gene Green (TX29) :: Press Release :: $750,000 For Bayou Preservation Secured
		“Buffalo Bayou is a historically significant symbol of Houston,” said Congressman Gene Green.
		The property along Brays Bayou totals two acres and would represent the first step in securing a major portion of the undeveloped floodplain and the banks along Brays Bayou, from its confluence with Buffalo Bayou to Mason Park.
		In continuing the tradition of public and private financial support for this project, the City of Houston has committed to providing a $750,000 funding match to ensure that this property is properly conserved and protected from development.
	www.house.gov /list/press/tx29_green/nr110905.html (344 words)

	Houston Downtown - Buffalo Bayou
		Buffalo Bayou is perfect for canoeing and kayaking.
		Water in the bayou can rise extremely rapidly — even on cloudless days — because the headwaters are controlled by a dam.
		A top priority of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership is to build trails on the north and south banks of Buffalo Bayou from Shepherd Drive to the Turning Basin.
	houstondowntown.com /Home/Lifestyle/WhatToDo/FamilyFun/BuffaloBayou (142 words)

	Buffalo Bayou
		The city of Houston learned of the power of flooding from Buffalo Bayou when the waters from the swollen bayou submerged much of the town in 1879.
		Within 100 yards, the channel joins Buffalo Bayou in a section that was channelized as a part of the flood control program that was completed in 1946.
		A paved hike and bike path on the north side of the bayou is heavily used by walkers, joggers and recreational bike riders.
	www.hal-pc.org /~lfa/BB04.html (638 words)

	Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area, S 1809 4/18/02
		Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to present the Department of the Interior’s views on S. 1809 and H.R. These bills would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area in west Houston, Texas.
		Both S. 1809 and H.R. 1776 outline the characteristics and qualities of the Buffalo Bayou area in Houston, Texas including the history and role of the Bayou in the creation and development of the city.
		It is also evident that the groups and communities in the Houston area value their heritage and open space and are looking for ways to maintain and enhance these qualities.
	www.nps.gov /legal/testimony/107th/bufbayhr.htm (971 words)

	UMI-Buffalo Bayou Partnership & Port of Houston Launch New Trash Skimmer Vessel, "Mighty Tidy"
		The bayou's collect of debris is the chief reason why the county bought a skimmer-boat around four months ago.
		Run by the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and Harris County Flood Control, they say it represents a major step in helping to clean up the bayou.
		Despite the natural place of the bayou in our habitat, it's the un-natural objects and how they wind up there that continues to baffle the folks who run the boat.
	www.trashskimmer.com /skimmer-boat.htm (342 words)

	Buffalo Bayou Partnership. Story by David Stiles. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership's plan called, "The Bayou and Beyond" is the product of years of design work.
		According to a City Council resolution from January 2001, the City of Houston gave the Buffalo Bayou Partnership the responsibility for the development of the Buffalo Bayou from Shepherd [Drive] to Downtown.
		The Buffalo Bayou Partnership declined to respond to requests from KPFT for details on the master plan for the Bayou.
	www.kpft.org /news/092002story5.html (447 words)

	Buffalo Bayou Christmas Bird Count History
		Buffalo Bayou CBC's 136 participants were tops in the state, besting the second place finisher by 13 observers.
		The Buffalo Bayou CBC is centered at the Houston Audubon Society's Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary.
		In its early years, the Buffalo Bayou CBC drew barely enough participants to adequately census the count circle, with totals of about 100 species.
	www.houstonarboretum.org /cbc/txbfhistory.htm (712 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Buffalo Bayou rises at the juncture of Willow Fork and Cane Branch west of Katy near the Waller county line in extreme northern Fort Bend County (at 29°46' N, 95°50' W) and flows sixty-five miles east, across southern Harris County, to its mouth on the San Jacinto River, at Lynchburg (at 29°46' N, 95°05' W).
		The stream is tidal from its junction with Whiteoak Bayou at Houston, eighteen miles above its mouth, and has been widened and deepened to form the Turning Basin and the Houston Ship Channel.
		In the 1990s Buffalo Bayou was extremely polluted.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/rhb28.html (260 words)

	Bayou City Live (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Proceeds create a documentary, book and curriculum on the history of Buffalo Bayou to be produced by Endangered Species Media project in conjunction with Ron Stone of Stone Films of Texas.
		Pledge-sponsored/company matched canoe teams use netted poles to remove litter and debris from the banks of Buffalo Bayou to restore habitats and protect wildlife.
		Participants and observers understand that litter from our city streets winds up in the sewers, is carried to the bayous and may reach the Gulf and quite possibly the stomachs of dolphin and other wildlife.
	www.bayoucitylive.com /cleanup.htm (373 words)

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