The plan calls for rebuilding, moving and expanding the park's playground and bathrooms and creating gardens and pathways and a storm-water system to prevent flooding.

While Houston did not take the brunt of the storm the way Galveston did, Ike did knock out the city's water pumping systems, and that was sufficient to threaten the whole health-care system.

Water used on site generally has high amounts of organic substances from the grapes that make it unsuitable for direct discharge into the storm water system.