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Article: A new hill to climb in Houston: Converted flood basins increasingly double as community parks
Houston, Texas – For 20 years, a four-story mound of dirt has overlooked Sunnyside near a bend in Sims Bayou, piled high with earth that the Harris County Flood Control District dug out to create a nearby floodwater detention basin.
The site was never designed for public use. Now, the peak is surrounded by work trucks carting dirt and laying pathway reinforcements to turn it into a new park.
"We don't generally have 60-foot-tall hills anywhere in Houston. But the vast majority of the time since this facility was built, it's basically not been accessible to the public," said Trent Rondot, conservation and maintenance director of the Houston Parks Board, on a recent tour of the area's Bayou Greenways.
"Now we're working with the Harris County Flood Control District and Harris County Precinct 1 to create park space, green space, in this spot," he said.
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