Posted by admin | Dec 21, 2018 | News
Barton Springs Pool will reopen Saturday. The City of Austin closed the pool Wednesday due to cloudy water. They now know that cloudiness was caused by drilling. City officials say sediment was discharging into the pool due to a well being drilled in the Barton...
Posted by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Forget going out to view your neighborhood’s Christmas lights this year: You can do it the 21st-century way, bathed in the pallid glow of a monitor. That’s because NASA has just released a wonderful bunch of satellite images of American cities, gleaming...
Posted by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Quality, Water Resources
Violations stemming from two separate discharges of sedimentary debris into Onion Creek in 2016 and 2017 led to citations for the Hays Quarry Rock Crushing Plant, according to a Barton Publications investigation. The investigation came after video and photo evidence...
Posted by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | News
Medicine Wall, a roughly 80-foot limestone bluff in northern San Antonio, will become the city’s first officially sanctioned outdoor rock climbing area when access to the site opens in 2020. After roughly two years of negotiations with landowners and developers, the...
Posted by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
More than 80 Hays County landowners—and hundreds more across the Hill Country—either have already or will soon be contacted by Kinder Morgan, Inc., one of the largest energy infrastructure companies on the continent, asking for permission to survey their property to...
Posted by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
The City of Murrieta, California earlier this month became the first of 11 Riverside County cities to obtain ownership of thousands of streetlights that will be retrofit with LED fixtures to minimize light pollution, enhance public safety and save approximately $60...