Re: [Texascavers] Houston Subsidence :

2007-08-24 Thread caverarch
...@aol.com Cc: gi...@att.net; Texascavers@texascavers.com Sent: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:46 pm Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Houston Subsidence : When I first moved to Houston back in the 60s, you could drive out to the Battleship Texas and the San Jacinto Monument and have a nice picnic on the grassy

RE: [Texascavers] Houston Subsidence :

2007-08-24 Thread Louise Power
times (depending on the amount of rain we'd had), the road (or part of the road) up to the monument, were inundated. You couldn't drive up to the monument at all. I wonder if they've done anything about it. From: "Geary Schindel" To: "John P. Brooks" ,"Fritz Holt&q

RE: [Texascavers] Houston Subsidence :

2007-08-24 Thread Geary Schindel
Folks, Faulting and subsidence are very real concerns in the Harris Galveston area and their occurrance very well documented. The subsidence is a result of a number of factors but the two most controllable factors are the extraction of oil and gas in the area and then later groundwater. For mo