Barton Springs Public Process

Laurie,
You have been swallowed by an egotistical, blind engineering trust.
The solutions are the problem.
Are these good ideas?
Dig out all the fauna in the pool now while it is at its most robust moment.
Remove the strata that it grows in.
Change the flow and force of the water.
Deliver the habitat to an engineering frenzy sponsored by a huge downturn in the economy.
Use the salamander to brand wasteful spending environmentally responsible.
Stall maintenance until there are less alternatives.
Trade common sense for political gain.
I offer you a much easier plan to protect the pool, the salamander, the budget, the swimmers and common sense.
Dont do anything regarding the gravel bar.  Leave it alone.  Do not spend the money now.  Study the robustness of the pool.  Learn from the success of something.  Something you have not figured out yet.
The gravel bar can languish another five years and then be removed if the floods dont scour it out one year.  The pool does not need the trauma of construction about to be set upon it.
You seem to have been lulled by something that has a history of never being what it is represented to be.
What will happen if the crane or huge aggregate truck fall in the pool?
What will be the effect if you cannot keep the fauna alive or it does not transplant as you would like it to?
What if the dewatering causes catastrophic pollution, degradation or destruction of the salamander?
When will we have another time to study this robustness if they make a mess of it?
Has there ever been a construction project in Barton Springs that was completed on time and without significant unplanned difficulties?
Will you be the one we turn to when an explanation is needed because it just did not turnout as they told you it would?
You like to believe things will work out the way you want them to, but there is not enough caution in your words to warrant my trusting them.
Why are there so many secrets in the process?  There has never been an answer to the simple questions of;
Why not wait?
Why not go slowly and have the discussion about new or modified dams?
Why not vacuum again and not worry about the larger gravel?
Why not develop a solution that matches the problem  take some out every year?
Laurie,   please dont go along with this tasteless desire to do the project?
let’s not forget that Barton Springs is a precious natural
swimming hole, plants are part of that system. We humans didn’t create
the springs, we share the springs with Nature. Plants in Barton
Springs means life or death for a variety of wildlife; they are merely
an inconvenience for us who swim around them. Nature is dynamic,
always changing. Now there is a great abundance of plants; in the
future, floods will rip them out and carry them away. Anyone that
doesn’t want to swim with Nature has numerous swimming pools all over
Austin to choose from, where plants and other wildlife can be avoided.  [Peter Steinhardt] quoted from Lauries last email

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt
Steinhardt & co
4518 Apache Pass
Austin, Texas 78745
office 512-443-2410
mobile 512-762-2646Laurie,
You have been swallowed by an egotistical, blind engineering trust.
The solutions are the problem.
Are these good ideas?
Dig out all the fauna in the pool now while it is at its most robust moment.
Remove the strata that it grows in.
Change the flow and force of the water.
Deliver the habitat to an engineering frenzy sponsored by a huge downturn in the economy.
Use the salamander to brand wasteful spending environmentally responsible.
Stall maintenance until there are less alternatives.
Trade common sense for political gain.
I offer you a much easier plan to protect the pool, the salamander, the budget, the swimmers and common sense.
Dont do anything regarding the gravel bar.  Leave it alone.  Do not spend the money now.  Study the robustness of the pool.  Learn from the success of something.  Something you have not figured out yet.
The gravel bar can languish another five years and then be removed if the floods dont scour it out one year.  The pool does not need the trauma of construction about to be set upon it.
You seem to have been lulled by something that has a history of never being what it is represented to be.
What will happen if the crane or huge aggregate truck fall in the pool?
What will be the effect if you cannot keep the fauna alive or it does not transplant as you would like it to?
What if the dewatering causes catastrophic pollution, degradation or destruction of the salamander?
When will we have another time to study this robustness if they make a mess of it?
Has there ever been a construction project in Barton Springs that was completed on time and without significant unplanned difficulties?
Will you be the one we turn to when an explanation is needed because it just did not turnout as they told you it would?
You like to believe things will work out the way you want them to, but there is not enough caution in your words to warrant my trusting them.
Why are there so many secrets in the process?  There has never been an answer to the simple questions of;
Why not wait?
Why not go slowly and have the discussion about new or modified dams?
Why not vacuum again and not worry about the larger gravel?
Why not develop a solution that matches the problem  take some out every year?
Laurie,   please dont go along with this tasteless desire to do the project?
let’s not forget that Barton Springs is a precious natural
swimming hole, plants are part of that system. We humans didn’t create
the springs, we share the springs with Nature. Plants in Barton
Springs means life or death for a variety of wildlife; they are merely
an inconvenience for us who swim around them. Nature is dynamic,
always changing. Now there is a great abundance of plants; in the
future, floods will rip them out and carry them away. Anyone that
doesn’t want to swim with Nature has numerous swimming pools all over
Austin to choose from, where plants and other wildlife can be avoided.  [Peter Steinhardt] quoted from Lauries last email

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt
Steinhardt & co
4518 Apache Pass
Austin, Texas 78745
office 512-443-2410
mobile 512-762-2646Laurie,
You have been swallowed by an egotistical, blind engineering trust.
The solutions are the problem.
Are these good ideas?
Dig out all the fauna in the pool now while it is at its most robust moment.
Remove the strata that it grows in.
Change the flow and force of the water.
Deliver the habitat to an engineering frenzy sponsored by a huge downturn in the economy.
Use the salamander to brand wasteful spending environmentally responsible.
Stall maintenance until there are less alternatives.
Trade common sense for political gain.
I offer you a much easier plan to protect the pool, the salamander, the budget, the swimmers and common sense.
Dont do anything regarding the gravel bar.  Leave it alone.  Do not spend the money now.  Study the robustness of the pool.  Learn from the success of something.  Something you have not figured out yet.
The gravel bar can languish another five years and then be removed if the floods dont scour it out one year.  The pool does not need the trauma of construction about to be set upon it.
You seem to have been lulled by something that has a history of never being what it is represented to be.
What will happen if the crane or huge aggregate truck fall in the pool?
What will be the effect if you cannot keep the fauna alive or it does not transplant as you would like it to?
What if the dewatering causes catastrophic pollution, degradation or destruction of the salamander?
When will we have another time to study this robustness if they make a mess of it?
Has there ever been a construction project in Barton Springs that was completed on time and without significant unplanned difficulties?
Will you be the one we turn to when an explanation is needed because it just did not turnout as they told you it would?
You like to believe things will work out the way you want them to, but there is not enough caution in your words to warrant my trusting them.
Why are there so many secrets in the process?  There has never been an answer to the simple questions of;
Why not wait?
Why not go slowly and have the discussion about new or modified dams?
Why not vacuum again and not worry about the larger gravel?
Why not develop a solution that matches the problem  take some out every year?
Laurie,   please dont go along with this tasteless desire to do the project?
let’s not forget that Barton Springs is a precious natural
swimming hole, plants are part of that system. We humans didn’t create
the springs, we share the springs with Nature. Plants in Barton
Springs means life or death for a variety of wildlife; they are merely
an inconvenience for us who swim around them. Nature is dynamic,
always changing. Now there is a great abundance of plants; in the
future, floods will rip them out and carry them away. Anyone that
doesn’t want to swim with Nature has numerous swimming pools all over
Austin to choose from, where plants and other wildlife can be avoided.  [Peter Steinhardt] quoted from Lauries last email

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt

__________________________
Peter Steinhardt
Steinhardt & co
4518 Apache Pass
Austin, Texas 78745
office 512-443-2410
mobile 512-762-2646