Bypass Tunnel News
The following is a series of emails sent by swimmer Dan Crow.
May 26, 2010
Dannette,
After the Parks Board passed a motion recommending to City Council the amendment of certain ordinances in order to allow access roads to the tunnel to be built, but that provided that Watershed had to come back to the Parks Board for approval of the final bypass tunnel repair plan, some of us went across the hall to the Planning Commission hearing.
At the… Continue reading
Stairs Restored by Swimmers
Dan Crow today reported on the bartonsprings at yahoogroups.com email list.
May 24, 2010
Hooray for Peter Steinhardt and Wayne Simmons who this morning single handedly reopened the south half of the main pool stairs at no cost to the city. The project was totally engineered by Peter who untied the buoy rope from the stair railing and retied it to the hand rail in the pool where a three foot piece of pvc pipe now keeps it away from… Continue reading
New Species of Plant in Colorado Discovered by Barton Swimmer
May 1st, 2010
From the SOS Alliance newsletter, Nov 30, 2009–Our very own Robert Corbin discovered a new plant species in the Colorado River bottoms of East Austin. The amazing discovery and scientific description of Iva corbinii was reported last week in Lundellia, the Journal of the Plant Resources Center of the University of Texas.
Robert “Crocodile” Corbin is a long-time member of the SOS Alliance Board of Directors, a regular swimmer at Barton Springs, an amazing naturalist, and… Continue reading
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