Yes, Louise, that condition was corrected in the 80s or early 90s. Now, however, Parks & Widllife and the San Jacinto support groups want to reverse some of the 1936 monument "improvements" in order to make the topography more like it was at the time of the battle. What this boils down to is re-excavating a partially filled gully that ran perpendicular to the reflecting pond, flowing north to the wetlands along the bay there. The gully was situated between the Texian camp on Buffalo Bayou and the Mexican Camp to the east. This shallow ravine had a critical role in the battle, since it hid the Texian troops from view until they were fatally close to the Mexican army breastworks.
Roger Moore -----Original Message----- From: Louise Power <power_lou...@hotmail.com> To: gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org; jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net; fh...@townandcountryins.com; wavyca...@gmail.com; cavera...@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 mall in front of the monument. By the time I left in '76, practically the whole grassy mall in front of the monument and, sometimes (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" <gschin...@edwardsaquifer.org> To: "John P. Brooks" <jpbrook...@sbcglobal.net>,"Fritz Holt" <fh...@townandcountryins.com>,"Don Cooper" <wavyca...@gmail.com>,<cavera...@aol.com> CC: <gi...@att.net>,<Texascavers@texascavers.com> Subject: RE: [Texascavers] Houston Subsidence : List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:52:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from raistlin.wokka.org ([69.56.185.90]) by bay0-mc9-f1.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:50:56 -0700 Received: (qmail 86216 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2007 14:50:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 86207 invoked by uid 31338); 24 Aug 2007 14:50:56 -0000 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 more information, I would recommend that you go to the web page for the Harris Galveston Subsidence District web page and read about the history of the district. They’ve been around for many years and are well known among Groundwater Conservation Districts. Here is the link, http://www.hgsubsidence.org/ Geary Schindel --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com
