Behind these embankments, over the years, Port Houston and the U.S. The fields where Flores and his friends used to play are massive swaths of open space bounded by grass-lined embankments around 20 feet tall. It's all filled in.Juan Flores grew up playing in open fields of mud, grass and overgrown brush not far from his house in Galena Park, a small city on the Houston Ship Channel, home to one of the world’s most highly concentrated clusters of refineries and petrochemical plants. "There used to be a little spot we could get in, but anymore. "This is the worst I've ever seen it," he said. The mouth of the channel hasn't been dredged in upwards of a decade, and he says the floor filled up with a large amount of sediment during last year's extreme rainfall event. Melnychuk has manned fishing boats coming in and out of the harbour since 1973, and he says the channel is the worst it's ever been. "Unfortunately, nobody wants to take responsibility," she said. The non-profit authority is lobbying the provincial government, Ottawa, the City of Richmond and the Port of Vancouver - all of which are agencies the SHA says have some form of jurisdiction over the harbour and surrounding community - for a cost-sharing agreement. Can you imagine what that would mean for our marine life if they ran aground?" "Our largest vessel that access the harbour, the Frosty, holds 128,000 litres of fuel. "The current dredging situation is dire," said Jaime Gusto, SHA general manager. The mouth, pictured behind the boat, is in desperate need of dredging, the harbour authority says. A boat enters the harbour at the Steveston channel.
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