Photo Contest Winners Announced

At the November 4, 2009 City Council Briefing meeting, 26 winners from the first Trinity River Photo Contest received Certificates of Excellence and in the case of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, their cash awards. All of the winners in the Youth Group came to the presentation and enjoyed their moment of fame and the opportunity to see the Dallas City Council as well as have their picture taken with Mayor Tom Leppert and Councilmember Dave Neumann, the Chairman of the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee.

The sponsors who made the launch of the contest possible are Canon and the Dallas Camera Club. Contest sponsors who made the prize awards possible as well as the exhibits of the winning photos are AT&T, CH2M Hill, Downtown Dallas, HNTB, Omni Hotels, ONCOR,  Trinity Commons Foundations, Trinity Trust Foundation, and Xerox Corp. Through a generous donation, Xerox has printed each winning photo in their I-Gen lab in large format for exhibition.

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Calendar of Events

November 21, 2009
Trinity River Corridor Project and
Student Conservation Association
Rochester Park Trail Maintenance
Rochester Park
3000 Municipal
Dallas, TX  75247
9:00 a.m. - noon
214-671-9500

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Dallas Floodway Project Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Meeting – Comment Period ends December 16, 2009

The Dallas Floodway Project Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Meeting was held in Dallas on November 17, 2009 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Dallas Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin Street, Room A201, Dallas, TX  75201.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Fort Worth District, in partnership with the City of Dallas, is preparing an Environment Impact Statement (EIS), pursuant to Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and it will integrate the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 process with NEPA to consider the potential effects of the action on historic resources (architecture and archeology). At the scoping meeting, the USACE informed the public on these matters and solicited input on its implementation of proposed levee remediation, flood risk management, interior drainage, ecosystem restoration, recreation enhancement, and other proposed projects in and around the Dallas Floodway.

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