Sheldon Lake State Park Case Study

The refugees moving to America are the citizens of Syria who are fleeing from the terrorist group known as ISIS. The factors taken into consideration about the relocation of refugees in Houston were resources like space and water. The final resettlement location chosen for the Syrian refugees was the Sheldon Lake State Park in Houston, Texas.

Sheldon Lake State Park is the relocation site because it has land and water for the refugees to use. The state park has 3,000 acres of land and 800 acres by 1 ft. of water in the lake. The refugees need at minimum 400 acres of land to hold them all, which means that Sheldon Lake State Park would have plenty of land for them. Also, there is 800 acres of fresh water nearby that can be easily accessed if the refugees need it. This location has more than enough land and water that is easily accessible to the Syrian refugees, which makes this place the best place to relocate them.

Every day the refugees would need about 6 million gallons of water every day. Every year the refugees would need approximately 3,500,000,000 gallons of water. This water’s transportation to the refugees would consist of plastic jugs carried in wagons. Collaborating with a method of transportation would not have to occur because the water delivery would happen without the use of vehicles. Because the lake is so big, the

At the state park there is enough water to support one million refugees. The water in Sheldon Lake is much cleaner in comparison to the water in other sites. Also, there is more than enough space to support one million refugees in the area. The state park can physically and environmentally sustain 1 million refugees for about a year because Sheldon Lake is has a limited supply of water and does not have a continuous water