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Volume 73, No. 4
Baytown, Texas 77520
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Friday, November 4,1994
October rainfall 18
inches over average
Planting jobs on the bayou
Partnership to
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By JANE HOWARD
The Baytown Sun
fall in October was the one
maintained at Baytown City Hall.
That site measured 17.53 inch-
es of rain falling during the
month.
Rainfall in Baytown, like in
most other Southeast Texas
cities, has far exceeded the
• yearly average now thanks to
October rains.
An average of 21.94 inches of
the wet stuff descended on
Baytown last month—18.48
inches over the normal 3.46-
inch figure. And most of that fell
in a three-day period.
Baytown measures rainfall at
seven stations located around
the city. For anyone wondering
just who was hit hardest by the
rainfall—not counting1 those
who were hit by rising rivers and
bayous—the most rain fell at
the city’s West District Treatment East District Plant—with 60.39
Plant, where 27.39 inches of rain inches of rain. The driest part of
was measured during the
month. Most of that fell between be City Hall, with “only” 47.08
Oct. 16 and 18; Another 2.01
inches fell at that location on
Oct. 19.
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A total of 56.11 inches so far
this year puts the city just a hair
under 17 inches more than the
usual yearly average of 39.12
inches by the end of October.
The West District Plant seems
to be located in the wettest part
of town — it has also measured
the most rainfall for the entire
year. A total of 65.11 inches of
rain has been caught in the rain
gauges at that location so far
this year. The closest any other
site has come to that mark is on
the other side of town—the
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By JANE HOWARD
The Baytown Sun
A relatively small group of peo-
ple gathered at Baytown’s Houston
Lighting & Power plant on West
Bay Road Thursday to mark the
beginning of a very significant
event.
During the informal ceremony,
representatives of HL&P, the Port
of Houston and the chief of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
signed an agreement kicking off a
year-long environmental partner-
ship to restore area wetlands.
The partnership will utilize a
full-time (and long-time) USDA-
Natural Resources Conservation
Service shoreline erosion special-
ist, Eddie Seidensticker, supervis-
ing an AmeriCorps team of 20
workers, ranging in age from 17 to
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The station with the least rain- rainfall.
Chemical waste sites
open in Crosby, liberty
Photos by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Ralph Greer is one of sev-
AmeriCorp is a national service era! Baytown residents on
the team.
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program much like the Civilian
Conservation Corps of the 1930s.
It is designed to facilitate pro-
grams that can achieve direct
results addressing the nation’s crit-
ical education, human service,
public safety and environmental
needs, with not only a projected
outcome beneficial to the commu-
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upholstery cleaners.
■ Bleachers, disinfectants, moth-
balls and ammonia-based and pow-
Crosby and Liberty have been dered cleaners,
included in a plan to help Southeast
Texans affected by flood damage
clean up their residences and stores.
The Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency (FEMA) and the Texas
Division of Emergency Manage-
ment, in cooperation with the Errvi- , ,
ronmental Protection Agency and Pr°ducts ^ they §ather debris and
Ihe Texas Natural Resources Conser- clean their houses> keePmg those
vation Commission, have established ‘terns separate from other debris that
collection sites for disposing of haz- they are putting out for normal trash
ardous wastes. Those sites will be collection.
nity when completed, but provid-
ing beneficial experience to the
team members. Those members
■ Floor and furniture polish.
■ Household and automobile bat-
teries and automotive products
including antifreeze, transmission
and brake fluids and motor oil.
David Tees, HL&P, Ned Eddie Seidensticker, shoreline erosion specialist with
work for one year at minimum
wage, but in the end eam a $5,000 Holmes, Port of Houston the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service,
and Paul Johnson, NRCS plants smooth cordgrass seed. Seidensticker is super-
ways—to pay off existing college sigrt the AmeriCorps visor of the AmeriCorps team working on the HL&P
agreement.
scholarship to use one of three
Residents should segregate the
wetlands project.
a trade school.
The local AmeriCorps project
smooth cordgrass and other plants
—years spent slogging through
muddy waters with only a few vol-
the spoil from dredging. Natural
grasses will then be planted
around such reefs and islands, as
well as existing problem shore-
lines, to protect them from ero-
Texas’ coastal areas,
involves cultivation of plants at the The group, under Seidenstick-
HL&P Cedar Bayou plant to later er’s guidance, will also establish
be transplanted to a demonstration other plants in areas with severe
marsh area on Atkinson Island,
property of the Port of Houston.
Normally, municipal landfills are
open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday,
Nov. 5, and they’ve been established able to accommodate the small
in those areas hit hardest by flood- quantities of hazardous wastes gen-
ing. erated by households without threat
In Harris County, they include to the environment The extent of the
sites in Kingwood and Sims Bayou, flooding, however, is expected to
of course, but also in Crosby. The increase the volume of household
Crosby collection site will be at hazardous waste to levels unsuitable
Crosby Senior High School, 14600 for landfills. Household chemicals
FM 2100, just north of Highway 90. can also contaminate ground water
The Liberty County site will be at and adversely affect sewage treat-
Liberty Municipal Park, off High- ment plants,
way 146 at Cook Street. The collection sites will not accept
Products damaged by the flood explosives, shock-sensitive chemi-
that should be set aside from other cals and organic peroxides, infec-
debris for proper disposal include: tious wastes, pressurized containers
I Paints, thinners and turpentine, such as propane gas cylinders, and
furniture strippers, wood preserva- radioactive waste, such as smoke
detectors. For questions about house-
I Pesticides, insecticides, herbi- hold hazardous waste issues, call the
flood-related household hazardous
■ Oven, toilet, drain, rug and waste hotline at 1-800-803-7718.
fessionals to plant and maintain
the planting areas. This project has
Participants will receive quite an the support of organizations such
Then, according to Seidenstick- education in the process. M the Galveston Bay Foundation,
er, the group will create 220 acres Paul Johnson, chief of the the Galveston Bay National Estu-
of island and shallow water marsh. USDAs Natural Resources Con- ary Program and Texas Parks &
The project had its origins about servation Service, stressed that Wildlife as well as the port
eight years ago when committees through this project, the Ameri- m .&p and the federal oovern-
working for the port Is 1989 bond Corps workers could begin “a life- mgnt ®
election pledged to do something time of service to their communi-
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All those plants will begin as
The Americorp workers have been seedlings at the HL&P plant,
on the job for about one month.
The project should take about 10
months more.
sion.
In the partnership, HL&P is
providing the field laboratories,
greenhouse and equipment; the
Port of Houston is providing
$100,000 for supplies, materials beneficial with material dredged ty.”
and transportation; and the USDA from the Houston Ship Channel, Seidensticker stressed the wor-
is funding Seidensticker’s efforts, according to Ned Holmes, board thy nature of the project.
The work at Atkinson Island chairman of the port,
will involve mostly smooth cord- “We’re coupling and environ-
grass, which has been proven mental project with an economic
effective, hardy, disease resistance project to the benefit of both,” he
and quick to spread when used in said. “It usually works the other
this area as a means to protect way around ...this is phenome-
shorelines. Shore erosion and nal.”
destruction of wetlands are the
two biggest problems plaguing
vested from natural growth areas,
areas
and carefully nurtured, protected
' “AmeriCorps’ theme is ‘to get
things done,’” he said. “But I want ty fencin8 until a few of the hardi-
to make sure it is something
worthwhile. This project will be
the largest marsh restoration pro- work will no longer be dependent
from seed, Seidensticker said, such
tives, stains and finishes.
on wild crops and hopefully avoid
such hazards as the diseases and
ject ever attempted and I have no
doubt it will be successful.”
The preset will involve creation The project caps Seidensticker’s fungi that attacked his earlier
of islands and oyster reefs, using many years of research with
Weather
Bar associations offer legal help for flood victims
23 Tonight: Cloudy. A 40 percent chance
of thunderstorms, some possibly
severe. Lows in the lower to mid 70s.
Southeast wind near 15 mph and
gusty.
Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a 50 per-
cent chance of thunderstorms, some
possibly severe. Highs in the upper
70s. Southeast wind near 15 mph and
gusty. Drawing by Alan Ischy, first
grade, Ashbel Smith Elementary.
A natural disaster, such as the Texas , have instituted a Disaster 7030, has been set up and will be tion. The kind of legal help avail-
recent flooding, brings many Legal Assistance Program. Local in operation 24 hours a day, seven able includes help with insurance
problems to those caught in its volunteer lawyers will provide days a week. Applicant may also claims, counseling on landlord-
path. Some of these problems free legal advice to people with go to the nearest Disaster Appli- tenant problems, help with home
necessitate legal assistance.
For those in need of that kind of aster, but who can’t afford their lawyer referral form,
help, the American Bar Associa- own lawyers.
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legal problems caused by the dis- cation Center (DAC) and fill out a repair contracts, counseling on
consumer protection matters, help
The lawyers are available to with replacing of important legal
tion’s Young Lawyers Division, in To assist the applicants, a 24- give legal advice in a fair and documents destroyed in the disas-
cooperation with the State Bar of hour bilingual hotline, 1-800-504- equitable way without discrimina- ter and much more.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, November 4, 1994, newspaper, November 4, 1994; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157922/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.