The Environmental Services Department Capital Revegetation Program aims to stabilize soil, enhance water quality, and reduce maintenance costs through revegetation efforts. The program prepares sites through erosion control, soil development, and plant preservation. It then conducts tree and shrub planting, wetland planting, and establishes operation and maintenance protocols to address invasive species and soil erosion. Water quality is monitored at existing and proposed stations to evaluate the effectiveness of the revegetation and wetland planting projects.

1. Environmental Services Department Capital Revegetation Program

2. Location

9. Purpose and Need HCFCD Mission: Provide flood damage reduction projects that work, with appropriate regard for community and natural values . Permanent site stabilization. Water quality enhancement. Maintenance cost reduction.

11. Site Preparation and Soil Development Erosion control Soil biology Plant Preservation Tree relocation Prairie and plant rescue Tree Mitigation Tree and Shrub Planting Reforestation Park planting Wetland Planting Water Quality enhancement Habitat planting Operations and Maintenance Invasive species control Restricted Mow Zones Program Elements

12. Site Preparation Soil organic matter and soil biology influence soil structure, porosity, and fertility. Enhanced rooting and vegetative growth stabilizes soil and mitigates soil erosion. Liquid compost extract applied to inoculate biology.

13. Wetland Planting NPDES/TPDES Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System General Permit and HCFCD Stormwater Management Program directs new projects to incorporate water quality enhancement. Habitat enhancement incorporated into planting design.

16. Wetland Planting

19. Operations & Maintenance Tackle site erosion as it occurs – utilize soil erosion inspector to address problems. Evaluate and address surface soil erosion and rilling. Create Restricted Mow Zones for special areas.

23. WQ Monitoring Automatic Sampling Grab Samples BMP Data Management System

24. Harris County Flood Control District Monitoring Stations Existing Proposed

25. Beltway 8 Water Quality Project – Surge Basin

26. Preliminary Results - Bacteria n = 10 n = 10 n = 10 n = 10 n = 10 n = 10