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March 28, 2007

We Interrupt the Fun for a Short Environmental Message

The Save Our Springs Alliance has documented pollution caused by rain water run-off from the AMD and Hill Country Galleria construction projects in the Barton Springs watershed:

A less-than-two-inch rain storm was enough to wash untold amounts of construction pollution off AMD and the Galleria's construction sites. AMD's site is on Southwest Parkway and Rialto Blvd. and the Galleria is in the Village of Bee Cave. We are going to file complaints against these polluters with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. These mall developers were caught polluting Little Barton Creek during construction of their "Shops at the Galleria" strip mall in 2005 and fined by TCEQ (a nominal few thousand dollars).

In related news, the coalition will be meeting this Saturday, March 31, from 9-11 a.m. to pick up trash in the recharge zone (as part of Keep Austin Beautiful's Clean Sweep).

Update: Clean up has been postponed due to rain.

Posted by timothompson at March 28, 2007 10:23 PM