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 Comprehensive Framework for Wetland Mitigation: A Watershed Approach by John S. Jacob - Texas Sea Grant

Boaters on Clear Lake should be aware of locations to empty their pottie tanks. Here's some info!

Map of Proposed Corp of Engineers Changes to the Creek.

Report by Jean Wright, Galveston County Health District, Galveston, Texas
 
"Both segments have been designated contact recreation waters in the State of Texas Water Inventory (305(b) Report). Both segments are nonsupportive of the contact recreations use because domestic point sources and urban runoff contribute to elevated bacteria levels. Conversely, both segments are on the 303(d) list of impaired waters in regards to bacterial levels sometime exceeding the criterion established to assure the safety of contact recreation.” Likewise, according to the monthly fecal coliform..."

From: Excerpts from Endangered Rivers and links to locate other informative sites.
"The City of Houston, Harris County and the City of Friendswood are among the nation's most repeatedly flooded communities - 17 of the nation's 20 most repeatedly flooded homes are located in the Houston area."

The Environmental Impact of Stream Channelization
April 1998 Report byRobert W. McFarlane, Ph.D., McFarlane & Associates
"The purpose of this report is to summarize the ecological roles of the Clear Creek ecosystem; to illustrate their importance to the surrounding uplands, clear Lake, and the Galveston Bay ecosystem; and to predict the resultant impact of the proposed channelization of Clear creek upon these adjoining ecosystems."
   

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