Trinity River talk for World Rivers Day with Amy Martin, plus Rich Grayson & Fouad Jaber

Schedule

Sun Sep 28 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

First Unitarian Church of Dallas | Dallas, TX

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Trinity River talk for World Rivers Day with Amy Martin
Followed by a discussion with Rich Grayson & Fouad Jaber
September 28 Sunday — 2 to 3:30 pm
First Unitarian of Dallas
4015 Normandy Ave, Dallas, TX 75205
https://dallasuu.org/
Sponsored by First U's Climate Action Team https://DallasUUcat.org/ and Ned Fritz Legacy https://nedfritz.com/
The Trinity River: The Watery Tie that Binds North Texas
There is only one river in North Texas: the Trinity. Once rejected and forgotten, paid attention to only when it floods, the Trinity is transforming from a place of refuse to refuge.
We’ll take a tour of the Trinity’s four forks—Clear, East, Elm, and West—exploring each one’s unique characteristics, plus the nature preserves and attractions they are home to. This riverine network is home to the Trinity River Paddling Trail https://trinitycoalition.org/paddling-trail/, a National Park Service recreation trail with over 120 miles of floating fun.
The talk concludes with a brief overview of our river follies, including the time when the West Fork was known as the River of Death, the misguided attempts to turn it into a barge canal that was thwarted by Ned Fritz https://nedfritz.com/, and the absurd idea to place a freeway in its floodplain, which took over a decade to be abandoned. Yet there are more Trinity indignities in the works.
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In celebration of World Rivers Day, after the talk Amy will moderate a discussion with Rich Grayson of the Texas Rivers Protection Association https://txrivers.org and Texas Stream Team https://www.meadowscenter.txst.edu/leadership/texasstreamteam.html/, and Fouad Jaber, professor of biological and agricultural engineering at Texas A&M University. Both are members of First Unitarian of Dallas, as was Ned Fritz.
Photo by Daniel Koglin.
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First Unitarian Church of Dallas, 4012 St Andrews Dr, Dallas, TX 75205-1726, United States

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