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Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas.Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [2]
The channel is a widened and deepened natural watercourse created by dredging Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay. [2] The channel's upstream terminus lies about four miles east of downtown Houston, at the Turning Basin, with its downstream terminus at a gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, between Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. [3]
The Sidney Sherman Bridge is a strutted girder bridge in Houston, Texas.It spans the Houston Ship Channel (Buffalo Bayou) and carries the East Loop segment of Interstate 610 on the east side of the city.
The center span crosses the entire central channel of Buffalo Bayou. The bridge provides 42 feet (13 m) of vertical clearance. As it is located between two bends in the bayou and crosses it at an angle, the design also allows for 100 feet (30 m) of horizontal clearance to accommodate the small craft traveling the bayou at the time it was built.
The city was founded at the convergence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, a point today known as Allen's Landing. Buffalo Bayou is the longest and largest of the bayous which flow through Houston, following a 53-mile (85 km) [ 13 ] route from Katy through Memorial , Rice Military , Downtown , the East End , Denver Harbor , and Channelview ...
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White Oak Bayou is a slow-moving river in Houston, Texas.A major tributary of the city's principal waterway, Buffalo Bayou, White Oak originates near the intersection of Texas State Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 290 (the Northwest Freeway) and meanders southeast for 25 miles (40 km) until it joins Buffalo Bayou in Downtown. [1]
By the end of the 19th century Buffalo Bayou had become a major shipping channel with traffic beginning to rival Galveston. [ 8 ] The citizens of Harris County approved creation of the modern port in 1909, believing that an inland port would better serve the region after the destructive Galveston Hurricane of 1900 .