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	Encyclopedia: Houston, Texas
		Houston is the main cultural and economic center of the Houstonâ“Sugar Landâ“Baytown Metropolitan Area, which is the seventh largest metropolitan area in the United States with a population of about 5.2 million in ten counties.
		Houston's energy industry is a world powerhouse (particularly oil), but biomedical research, aeronautics and the ship channel are also large parts of the city's industrial base.
		Much of Houston's success as a petrochemical complex is due to its man-made ship channel, the Port of Houston, which is one of the busiest ports in the United States and second in the world in foreign tonnage.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Houston,-Texas (10732 words)

	Houston, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Houston is one of only five cities in the country with these year-round visual and performing arts available, and is widely recognized as the nation's third most important city for contemporary visual arts.
		Houston is home to the prestigious Rice University, a private institution boasting one of the largest financial endowments of any university in the world and ranked the 17th best university overall in the nation by U.S. News and World Report [3].
		Houston is served by the University of Houston System, the largest urban state system of higher education in the Gulf Coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Houston,_Texas (6462 words)

	Houston, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Houston is world renowned for its energy industry (particularly (A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water) oil), aeronautics industry and ship channel.
		Houston's size and lack of zoning have contributed to decentralization, or (An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities) urban sprawl, which, combined with the humidity and hot summers, has made the automobile the favored means of transportation.
		Houston became a major port because of the downfall of (A town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island) Galveston and the Houston Ship Channel.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/houston,_texas.htm (7398 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL
		The Houston Ship Channel, one of the busiest waterways in the United States, achieved its earliest significance as a link between interior Texas and the sea.
		Although Morgan is sometimes called "the Father of the Houston Ship Channel," he soon shifted his attention from ships to railroads, and his line abandoned the route in 1883.
		Two synthetic rubber plants were located near the channel while the war was in progress, and after the war the channel became a center of the petrochemical industry.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/rhh11.html (1351 words)

	Recovery continues after 230-foot freighter sinks in Houston Ship Channel
		HOUSTON (AP) -- Recovery crews on Monday began removing containers filled with hazardous materials from a 230-foot freighter that sank while being loaded in the Houston Ship Channel.
		The ship channel is 43 feet deep and about 55 miles long, connecting Houston to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
		The ship is owned by the Panama-based Inmar Shipping Co. and operates under Belize registration, the Coast Guard said.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texas/ship0804.html (312 words)

	CLUI Newsetter - Summer 2004 - Houston's Ship Channel
		The ship channel is an expanded version of an old muddy creek called the Buffalo Bayou, which connects downtown Houston to Galveston Bay and the Gulf.
		The Houston refinery is one of two that are mostly owned by the company in Texas (the other is at Corpus Christie) and one of four mostly owned by the company in the USA (the other two are in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Lemont Illinois).
		The Galveston Channel, the sheltered inland side of the Island, is littered with oil rigs, towed in from the gulf for repair or scrap.
	www.clui.org /clui_4_1/lotl/v27/i.html (1859 words)

	POHA \| Overview
		The Port of Houston is made up of the port authority and the 150-plus private industrial companies along the ship channel.
		The Houston Ship Channel has been a catalyst for growth in Harris County since the first journey of a steamship up Buffalo Bayou in 1837.
		Ship channels to Houston, Galveston, Texas City and Port Bolivar extend from Bolivar Roads in the southern part of Galveston Bay.
	www.portofhouston.com /geninfo/overview1.html (594 words)

	Houston Ship Channel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The channel, which was opened in 1914 and later improved, is 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long, 36 ft (11 m) deep, and has a minimum width of 300 ft (90 m).
		Houston is the state's most populous city and the fourth largest city in the United States.
		The fourth most populous city in the nation and the largest in Texas, Houston is the home of the world's largest man-made ship channel and the nation's third busiest seaport.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9041212?tocId=9041212 (847 words)

	$3.2 million project to document dioxin levels in Houston ship channel
		Since last summer, University of Houston environmental engineers have been taking hundreds of water, fish and sediment samples from the Houston Ship Channel to determine what levels of dioxins, if any, are present.
		Houston may be different from other areas of the country, such as the Great Lakes, where particles from air pollution deposit over the water or land and then wash into the water bodies.
		Rifai is working with state and regional agencies to provide industrial stakeholders with periodic updates and reports on the project, found on the Web at http://www.hgac.cog.tx.us/intro/introtmdl.html, and she works with industry to obtain samples from company sites.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-11/uoh-mp111202.php (979 words)

	Houston Ship Channel 50th Anniversary Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Houston Ship Channel was established in 1914; however, Buffalo Bayou, which flows through Houston, had been used for boat navigation as early as 1839.
		In 1841, the mayor of Houston established the Port of Houston, which was supported by the city and later by the state of Texas.
		Included is a typed manuscript history of the Port of Houston and Buffalo Bayou, as well as a typed version of the ordinance establishing the Port of Houston, in 1841.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/collections/faids/html/horn.html (365 words)

	UH - News Releases - $3.2 MILLION PROJECT TO DOCUMENT DIOXIN LEVELS IN HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HOUSTON, Nov. 12, 2002 – A major scientific study under way in Texas may help clarify how toxic chemicals are transported through the environment.
		Fox, an active member of the Society of Toxicology and an expert in developmental toxicology and neurotoxicology, notes that the effects of dioxins depend on a variety of factors, including the level of exposure, the age at time of exposure, and the duration and frequency of exposure.
		Houston may be different not only because of the nature of its air quality, but also because there may be a greater contribution from industrial water discharges.”
	www.uh.edu /admin/media/nr/2002/112002/environmentalstudy111202.html (988 words)

	ATSDR - Health Consultation - Houston Ship Channel and Tabbs Bay (a/k/a Houston Ship Channel), Houston, Harris County, ...
		A 1990 TDH consumption advisory for the Houston Ship Channel, the San Jacinto River, and Tabbs Bay was issued due to contamination of catfish and blue crabs with dioxins
		TDH evaluated chemical contaminants in fish and crabs from the Houston Ship Channel, San Jacinto River, and Tabbs Bay by comparing average concentrations of chemical contaminants with health-based assessment comparison (HAC) values for non-cancer and cancer endpoints.
		This Houston Ship Channel/Tabbs Bay Health Consultation was prepared by the Texas Department of Health under a cooperative agreement with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/houstonship/hsc_p1.html (4054 words)

	Industry in Pasadena, Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Port of Houston and the Houston Ship Channel were formally opened in September of 1914.
		However, in order to keep the ship channel in operation tugs and dredge boats were needed and this provided employment for a few Pasadena residents.
		It was located across the channel from Pasadena and the community of Galena Park was developed to provide housing for its employees.
	www.sjcd.cc.tx.us /district/library/pasadena/industry/saltilla.htm (181 words)

	Photo Release - - Delivering a Wider, Deeper Houston Ship Channel
		While on-going channel maintenance is financed entirely by the federal government, channel deepening projects are cost-shared between local sponsors and the federal government.
		The Port of Houston Authority, as the local sponsor, is contributing its share of the non-federal cost from bonds approved by Harris County voters in 1989 by a margin of nearly two to one.
		The Port of Houston Authority owns and operates the public facilities located along the Port of Houston, the 25-long complex of diversified public and private facilities designed for handling general cargo, containers, grain and other dry bulk materials, project and heavy lift cargo, and other types of cargo.
	finance.lycos.com /qc/news/story.aspx?symbols=PRIMEZONE:100&story=200508192000_PZN_84276 (859 words)

	Houston Ship Channel. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Houston Ship Channel, S Texas, dredged deepwater channel c.50 mi/80 km long, connecting port of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico via Buffalo Bayou, San Jacinto R., and Galveston Bay.
		Pasadena (just E of Houston) and Salena Park and under San Jacinto R. sect., bet.
		Development began 1912; channel has since been deepened and widened to accommodate large vessels.
	www.bartleby.com /69/12/H05112.html (110 words)

	Coast Guard Investigates Collision in Houston Ship Channel
		HOUSTON - The Coast Guard Captain of the Port, Capt. Rich Kaser, re-opened the Houston Ship Channel at 8:30 a.m.
		The Houston Ship Channel was closed between lights 26 and 30.
		There is a report of two injured crewmembers on the Rita M. The Rita M is presently in the Alternate Bolivar Channel and the UTV Thunder is in the Bolivar Anchorage.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,uscg3_121004.00.html (214 words)

	USATODAY.com - Port of Houston 'very, very lucky' after Rita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HOUSTON — Hunkered down in a tiny fortress of a building on high ground near the Houston Ship Channel, the emergency workers waited Friday night for the giant hurricane to hit.
		The Port of Houston — one of the world's largest ports, with vast oil and chemical plants, including Shell, ExxonMobil and Dow — is a vital artery of global trade.
		The surging waters flooded docks and ripped dozens of huge barges and ships from their moorings, snapping thick steel cables and ropes as if they were threads.
	www.usatoday.com /money/economy/2005-09-25-port-1b-cover-usat_x.htm (1644 words)

	Experimental Galveston Bay/Houston Ship Channel Nowcasting/Forecasting System: Ship Channel Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Channel side slopes are steep order 1:2.5 to 1:5 with several buried pipelines.
		Of interest, was to observe the magnitude and spatial variation of the density stratification along a section of the HSC.
		A secondary focus was to attempt to measure the vertical velocity structure to assess the validity of the hydrostatic assumption used in the present modeling approach.
	chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov /CSDL/op/hgops/gbfore.s4.html (680 words)

	A Batch Study on the Potential PAH Release from Contaminated Sediment in Houston Ship Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		PAHs from various sources are ultimately deposited in sediments, the potential release from contaminated sediment is of concern and important to the remediation, risk assessment, pollution prevention and water quality management.
		Of particular interest to this study is the sediment in Houston Ship Channel where various sources of PAHs are likely to be profound and frequent waterborne transport may result in secondary pollution of overlying water due to sediment re-suspension and enhanced sediment-to-water mass transfer processes such as diffusion, dissolution, and desorption.
		Year 1 study of this project focused on the batch test on the adsorption/desorption behaviors in three of the six sediment samples acquired from the Houston-Galveston area (Table 1).
	www.eih.uh.edu /publications/02annrep/zhang.htm (906 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Corps seeks cash to pull silt from channel
		The portion of the Houston Ship Channel near the Baytown refineries appears to be affected the most by the shoals created by the silt.
		Also affected was the Turning Basin, the portion of the Ship Channel near the Loop 610 bridge.
		While the channel is typically 36 feet deep in the Turning Basin, it is now about 32 feet because of the silt.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/storm2001/949118 (404 words)

	United Press International - NewsTrack - Houston Ship Channel reopened after mishap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HOUSTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The Coast Guard reopened the Houston Ship Channel Thursday after a chemical tanker collided with a moored barge, causing a small oil spill.
		A one-mile section of the channel, which links the Port of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico, was closed for 12 hours.
		The Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Houston and the Texas General Land Office were on the scene.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20041216-101031-7614r (436 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Ship Channel opened Houston’s door to the world
		The big party was held four miles east of downtown, on a lazy bend of Buffalo Bayou that had been dredged and widened to serve as the Turning Basin, the terminus of the Houston Ship Channel.
		These efforts were opposed by Galveston residents, whose port was nicknamed “the octopus of the Gulf” by Houston businessmen because of its shipping dominance and stiff harbor fees.
		And in World War II, industries along the Ship Channel were major producers of cargo ships, warships and synthetic rubber, along with fuel, lubricants and explosives.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/first100/805906 (1086 words)

	Houston Ship Channel \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Houston \| Frommers.com
		For those fortunate enough not to live among the industrial areas of the Texas Gulf Coast, the landscape of refineries and their intricate tangle of pipes, their forests of cooling towers and stacks, and their fields of tanks are as exotic as the Zanzibar coast.
		I hail from Houston but rarely have the opportunity to see the ship channel up close, and I enjoyed this trip.
		You should probably make reservations well in advance during the summer months when it is quite popular, but I'm told that the ship channel is best seen in cooler weather, when there is no risk of bad smells.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/houston/A28373.html (353 words)

	Click2Houston.com - News - Ship Channel Reopens After Collision, Oil Spill
		HOUSTON -- A collision in the Houston Ship Channel Wednesday night caused an oil spill, forcing officials to shut down part of the waterway, Local 2 reported.
		At least six had been scheduled to arrive in the upper sections of the channel early Thursday, six depart and three others were to make runs within the channel.
		Last week, the lower section of the channel was shut, including the Bolivar ferries at Galveston, after a tugboat collision Friday damaged a barge and leaked a highly flammable gasoline component into the water.
	www.click2houston.com /news/4002205/detail.html (578 words)

	Pipeline & Gas Journal : Duke Energy Completes Pipeline Removal/Relocation In Houston Ship Channel. @ HighBeam ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Port of Houston Authority and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are moving on schedule on the project to deepen and widen the Houston Ship Channel (HSC).
		When completed, the channel will deepen from its current 40 feet to 45 feet and its width will increase from 400 feet to 530 feet.
		However, insufficient space in the channel made it impossible for the various owning companies to undertake pipeline removals and relocations at the same time.
	static.highbeam.com /p/pipelineampgasjournal/november012000/dukeenergycompletespipelineremovalrelocationinhous/index.html (258 words)

	Pipeline & Gas Journal: Houston Ship Channel work affects pipelines.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Renovation and expansion of a 39-mile portion of the Houston Ship Channel will mandate the relocation of an estimated 90 pipelines.
		The Port of Houston Authority has invested $562 million on the project and will be responsible for the design and construction management of the disposal facilities in the bay.
		The ship channel is being renovated for safety reasons, since expansion connotes accommodation of larger vessels, and competitive reasons because larger vessels mean increased loading and additional cargo.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:20901206&... (181 words)

	WOAI: San Antonio News - Coast Guard tightens security along Houston Ship Channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The scrutiny has not gone unnoticed by the Houston Pilots group, which is responsible for taking vessels through the ship channel, which is known internationally as difficult to navigate.
		Shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks all vessels planning to enter the Houston Ship Channel have been required to notify the Coast Guard at least 96 hours in advance.
		The Port of Houston Authority also has tightened its procedures at port facilities since a Houston Chronicle reporter did a story about gaining access to sensitive areas after showing only a driver's license at the front gate.
	www.woai.com /news/state/story.aspx?content_id=0D72A85B-EADF-4B68-B0BC-74A614E8914F (527 words)

	HOUSTONTRAVELGUIDE.COM: Houston, Texas Ship Channel Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Embarking from the port's Sam Houston Pavilion, visiting sightseers can enjoy passing views of international cargo vessels, and operations at the port's Turning Basin Terminal.
		Measuring 95 feet in length and 24 feet in width, the boat carries a maximum capacity of 100 passengers with air-conditioned lounge seating and additional standing room on the boat's rear deck.
		The M/V Sam Houston has been operating as the Port Authority's public tour vessel since its inaugural voyage on Aug. 30, 1958.
	www.houstontravelguide.com /tours/shipchannel.shtml (245 words)

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