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This program is part of the Tales of Houston Women collaboration, a two-month retrospective and celebration by several of our community's organizations displaying the many ways Houston’s women have, are, and will put their mark on history. We are celebrating through art, lectures, science, movies, dance, and more. Learn more at　www.talesofhoustonwomen.org

Why Vote for Proposition A?

The Bayou Preservation Association is proud to announce the recipient of the 2018 Terry Hershey Bayou Stewardship Award is Mary Anne Piacentini.

 

Bayou Preservation Association founder, Terry Hershey, has passed at age 94.

The Harris County Engineering Department received honorable mention in the Houston-Galveston Area Council's (H-GAC) Our Great Regions Awards for their work on Harris County's first net-zero energy restroom at Carter Park in Precinct 4.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is spraying the invasive water hyacinth on Dickinson Bayou today, September 28, 2016.

An article from our Board Member Michael F. Bloom PE, ENV SP, CFM, BCEE

According to City Councilman Mike Laster of District J on the southwest side, the biggest problem with stolen shopping carts taken from local retail stores is that they often wind up tangled together at the bottom of drainage canals, effectively forming giant dams, blocking water flow.

Things get bad when Houston floods. Water swamps homes, takes lives and shuts down the city. But it should be so much worse. There shouldn't even be a city here. But there is, and most Houstonians casually accept the enormous drainage system - the bayous, creeks and gullies - that keep it precariously dry in a former wetland.

Elected officials help Bayou Preservation Association toast 50th anniversary luncheon.