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By Savannah Herald1 Min Read
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is there a petition being passed around and signed? Seems the thing is to get the word out and get as many locals involved as possible. Then petition those higher ups who are always boasting about loving Denton and progress of the city. Im on your side. I live in the colony, but iworked in denton for the last eleven years and i passed right by there and never knew it was therte until today. [Aug 11, 2024. Sad situation i must say. Im suprised at TPWD. wow. I subscribed to your channel and am in agreement with you.
I came across your videos looking for Greenbelt content since I bike and hike it a lot. A quick search will show you that they realize the two lakes were built to close to each other. The log jams will never stop since there is just enough flood water to kill trees, but never enough to flush them from the channel. The only true solution for the jams I saw mentioned several years back was to clear all timber and channelize it into a glorified ditch. ACOE said it would still need occasional dredging since it would silt up from lack of flow. TPWD has been doing a pretty good job keeping the the surface trails clear with new gates to open the trail in sections when flooding recedes, and most of the users are the hike, bike, and horse users anyway. Maybe more will get done if Denton decides to build the southern extension of the trail to connect to their new Pecan Creek Trail they just started developing. Denton owns the lease to the Greenbelt corridor, after all.
They knew about these jams for a long time. There was a conversation started over a decade ago to begin a mutual relationship with the USACE and my national guard unit to clear log jams as training exercises. It didn’t go anywhere, but I remember it vividly since it was brought up we’d get to use demo, and who doesn’t get excited about explosives?
I agree it's a disaster, but is it a conservation disaster? The blockage on 380 has pretty much blocked the white bass run (a few still get through) but they have plenty of other places to run. Other than that, the wildlife upriver seems to be doing just fine. It seems more like an access disaster to me, not that it's unimportant—I'd love to see it cleared as much as anyone. Also, is the primary issue the logjam? Or are there other factors at work? I've always wondered if we could just wait until late summer and get a bunch of folks with chainsaws and haul lines to clear out some brush…