Abstract
In the past virtually all public and private wharves at the Port of Houston (Tex.) have been of the marginal type because •of the unusual nature of the Houston Ship Channel. Unlike most deepwater ports, the turning basin of the Port of Houston is 50 miles from the open sea (the Gulf of Mexico) and was developed by dredging a narrow, shallow, winding stream known as Buffalo Bayou. As an inducement to industry, a strip of land, 2,500 ft deep on each side of the center of the channel, was taken into the city of Houston but was declared exempt from city taxes. As a result, industrial facilities and their private wharves were forced to be developed as close as possible to the channel, and the utilization of marginal wharves was thereby dictated.
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