Photo courtesy Greens Bayou Corridor C
For the past five years, the Greens Bayou Corridor Coalition has worked to develop parks and trails, improve flooding issues and promote economic development along the bayou.
With the master plan nearly completed for its portion of the 45-mile-long watershed, which stretches in a semi-circle from Hwy. 290 to the Houston Ship Channel, funding remains a priority.
Flooding is a major concern for the West Reach committee that covers the Northwest Houston section of the bayou from Hwy. 290 to Veterans Memorial Drive.
The coalition has made two trips to Washington over the last year to secure funding for a detention pond —a pond that holds water when streams and rivers overflow — near Veterans Memorial Drive, said Jill Boullion, executive director of the Greens Bayou Corridor Coalition.
