Murray River

Voluntary home buyouts are used by the Harris County Flood Control District to reduce flood damages in areas hopelessly deep in the floodplain where structural flood damage reduction projects, like channel modifications or detention basins, are not cost effective and/or beneficial. Generally, these are homes that should have never been built. More than 60 percent of the county was developed before floodplain regulations were implemented in the 1980s. The Flood Control District’s Voluntary Home…

Sunday, the 22nd of May, I went on my first grunion run or maybe it is that I watched the grunion “run” for the first time. California grunion are small sardine-like fish from the silversides family. They are found near the shores of Baja California, Mexico and as far north as Santa Barbara. Contrary to popular opinion they do not migrate. At full moon and high tide between March and August, the grunion leave the water to spawn on shore. The female buries half of her body, tail first, and…

According to History.com, during the Johnstown flood of May, 1881, more than 2,209 people tragically died. A harmful sequence of events led to this disaster, these include; a torrential rainfall leading to a neglected dam collapsing which caused a flood. The Johnstown Flood was very catastrophic because of the rainfall, neglected dam, and flood that took many lives. The heavy rainfall of late May, 1881, poured down into little lake Conemaugh. The lake was overflowing with water, flowing…

From beyond the screen of bushes which surrounded the spring, Popeye watched the man drinking. A faint path led from the road to the spring. Popeye watched the man, a tall, thin man, hatless, in worn gray flannel trousers and carrying a tweed coat over his arm-- emerge from the path and kneel to drink from the spring. The spring welled up at the root of a beech tree and flowed away upon a bottom of whorled and waved sand. It was surrounded by a thick growth of cane and brier, of cypress…

to water quality and wildlife habitat. A riparian zone refers to stream bank system, including the stream, soils, flora, and fauna within it. Riparian buffers, specifically, are one of the most significant structures to implement along streams and rivers because of the structure’s many functions and abilities. Riparian buffer zones act as a canopy to shade and cool stream temperatures, as a filter strip to attenuate sediment, pollutant, and nutrient runoff, and as a wildlife habitat, all wrapped…

water and culture have been incredibly interlinked. Since the beginning of settled life, humans have almost always recognized that settling by a body of clean usable water is necessary. Over time this need began to give birth to a deep respect for rivers, lakes and streams. Because water is such a critical element of life it was worshipped and appreciated for thousands of years by almost all cultures of the past. It has been a source of power and inspiration for thousands of years. The influence…

Wide-spread recognition of escalating hydrological alterations of rivers has increased as a result of existing and projected future increases in water demands. The importance of a river’s flow regime for sustaining biodiversity and ecological integrity has been well studied over the last past 4 decades. This paper synthesizes the flow assessment methodologies to understand ecological responses to flow alteration and begins with a compilation of all historical methods to assess environmental…

Connecticut River Valley and the Hudson River Valley got carved when the glaciers passed through their scraping rock. Both valley’s also got carved when the glaciers retreated and melted, and passed through the valley’s. The Hudson River formed when 10,000 years ago, the dam that held all the water broke, and formed the Hudson River. The Connecticut River also formed when another dam, the dam at Middletown Ct broke, and the river emptied very quickly, which formed the Connecticut River, an old…

three and a half million miles of streams and river habitats. These streams and rivers once were flourishing ecosystems of prestien water, boasting healthy populations of native fish, and plant life. In the United States, streams provide some of the most prized fishing locations for many different species. Today however, as cause from human development, there has been a major negative impact on the health of these cherished waterways. A large number of rivers and streams have lost prized game…

Hatchet Hatchet is about a boy named Brian who gets stuck on a deserted island after a plane crash. Brian has to learn how to survive with very minimal supplies, food, and no fresh water. Throughout the story, the reader can identify many different elements of symbolism. These symbolic elements represent how Brian has changed throughout the course of the story. Throughout the entire story, Brian is constantly with a hatchet, hence the title. Besides the fact that the hatchet helps him survive,…