At the top of the South Side on Lamar building, 17 acres of wetlands can be seen just south of downtown Dallas. The area will soon become the Dallas Water...
Public-private partnership touts plans for greenspace that would be used for flood prevention, education
This is a view of the site that will be transformed into Dallas Water Commons. Leaders plan to use the development to educate the community about wetlands preservation to general urban development. Dallas Water Commons won’t just include water filtration and flood-prevention methods to mitigate Dallas’ risk from severe storms. It will also be a park with an educational element for residents to learn about urban water solutions.
Vicki Meeks is on the Dallas Water Commons board. She said the project’s educational component is especially important for the Black community because the“That’s the part that actually excites me because part of the issue around why we don’t get involved in these kinds of projects is because we are not educated about them,” she said.
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