[Interim Review of Reports]: Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, White Oak Bayou, Texas Page: 3
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS
CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S. ARMY
BOARD OF ENGINEERS FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20315
ENGBR 24 March 1964
SUBJECT: Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, Texas - White Oak Bayou
TO: Chief of Engineers
Department of the Army
1. Authority.--This interim report is in partial response to
the following resolution adopted 20 April 1948:
Resolved by the Committee on Public Works of the
House of Representatives, United States, That the Board
of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors be, and is hereby,
requested to review the reports on Houston Ship Channel
and Buffalo Bayou, Texas, contained in House Document
No. 456, T5th Congress, 2nd session, with a view to
determining a comprehensive plan for the betterment .of
navigation and for the control of floods throughout the
Buffalo Bayou watershed including modifications, if any,
of the presently approved plan of improvement and of the
requirements for local cooperation in order to meet the
materially changed conditions resulting from the rapid
industrial expansion of the City of Houston, and
contiguous areas.
It is limited to consideration of an extension of the authorized
project for White Oak Bayou, a tributary of Buffalo Bayou, in the
interest of flood control. A final report on Buffalo Bayou and its
tributaries will be submitted later.
2. Basin description.--White Oak Bayou is a tributary of
Buffalo Bayou in the San Jacinto River basin located on the upper
Gulf coast of Texas. The land surface of the White Oak Bayou water-
shed slopes gently from a maximum elevation of about 140 feet to about
30 feet above mean sea level. The only significant irregularities in
the gentle slope are the valleys cut by the bayou and its tributaries.
The watershed, containing about 113 square miles, lies entirely within
Harris County, Texas. The bayou rises in west-central Harris County
and, until the 1950's, flowed southeasterly in a tortuous channel for
about 34 miles to its junction with Buffalo Bayou near the center of
Houston. In recent years local interests have rectified the channel
alignment of the bayou so that its present length is about 25 miles.
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United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Engineers. [Interim Review of Reports]: Buffalo Bayou and Tributaries, White Oak Bayou, Texas, report, 1965; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1048117/m1/15/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.