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Taken while wasting time when at the LAV class not far from here

The wall markers certify the distances, and the survey point being used in national planning and compliance. The darker colored cement is the original level height, but more recently another 50 or 60 cm have been added on top: maybe recalculating protection level after melting Arctic ice is projected, or recalculating tsunami effects after having witnessed the 2011 Great East Japan triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor accidents.

 

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Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

Flood control ditch closer to Newington, 3 February 2008. Note sticks in entrance, white substance on pool, still water at entrance (though water flowing in ditch).

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Local flood control scheme.

 

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Red-tailed Hawk on tallow tree at Exploration Green north of El Dorado, Clear Lake City, Texas.

Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Don't these supports remind you of the stone figures on Easter Island?

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

The Ferrier Estate, to the North and East of the park, is gradually being demolished and replaced with what will be much nicer looking buildings. I couldn't tell if this is going to displace the current residents or improve their living conditions.

Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

Repair work on channel of Brays Bayou in Houston.

 

Medical Center in distance

Coppul Lane flood control dam, Wigan. 26th September 2012

Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

Lefty Gomez Field in Fairfax CA, March 2016

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Public questions and comments to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regarding the pending permit request for Exploration Green held at the Clear Lake Recreation Center on May 29, 2014.

Groundbreaking ceremony and celebration for Exploration Green, a joint flood control, recreation, environment, and conservancy project of the Clear Lake City Water Authority and the Exploration Green Conservancy.

Earth Day celebration at Exploration Green, 4/23/2016.

A windmill at Kinderdijk. The Netherlands, May 2006.

Flood control ditch (closer to Frogholt), 3 February 2008. Note filled with sticks from recent tree trimming.

Coppul Lane flood control dam, Wigan. 26th September 2012

The windmills at Kinderdijk. The Netherlands, May 2006.

Established 1738. Windmill at Kinderdijk, The Netherlands. May 2006.

From here, the river goes back into a culvert to cross another road, and then comes out into an old-school concrete channel.

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