“Previous generations understood that you came here to make money and that was it,” says Susan Chadwick, executive director of Save Buffalo Bayou, a local advocacy group. Part recreational attraction, part flood-control device, Buffalo bayou park is a 160-acre green space hugging the water that was completed in 2015. Anne Olson is president of the Buffalo Bayou Partnership, which runs the park. “If we don’t do it then we are at risk – will people invest here?”A jogger in Buffalo bayou park in September. Harris county is studying whether adding detention basins – excavated areas installed on, or adjacent to water – along the Buffalo bayou could help.

Source: The Guardian December 20, 2017 07:00 UTC