Austinist: YouTubeAustin: SOS Catches AMD in the Muck

DJFelix

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:22:58 -0600

You've really got to be kidding me, right? We're supposed to be all upset that: 1) It rained 2) The rainwater kicked up dirt, that flowed down hill. It's dirt right? It's not toxic waste ... just "silt" or "sediment" or "dirt" ... What's the problem here? Go jump in town lake, kick your feet around the bottom ... stir up some sediment ... It'll look the same. If you don't want to swim in dirt ... don't swim in a river/lake ... Period. I don't see the controversy here people. I agree with the first poster ... pure propaganda, nothing more. I don't support the SOS, I don't support their initiatives, and I certainly don't support politicians who support them. This blatant propaganda only re-affirms my position. { yawn }

Anon

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:56:36 -0600

Have you been out to that area? Across the street is a Freescale office complex with a semiconductor Fab. There are numerous apartment complexes and well as neighborhoods and other office buildings. Many people think that AMD is the only large development in some pristine wilderness, but that is not the case...

Anon

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:07:24 -0600

Lets face it, these building projects just stink. I think the point SOS is trying to make is that the silt fences are breached so easily. If someone dosen't publicly keep these people in check as they build they will run roughshod over the surrounding evironment. It dosen't appear to me that what we're seeing in the video as much directly effects the pool as it does the Williamson creek tributaries which deserve just as much protection as Barton Springs. Hey AMD - no ammount of PR will EVER make up for the fact that you ignored public opinion and built over hallowed ground. When the springs are closed forever due in part to the crap that washes off your parking lots and into the aquifer Austin will be changed forever. What a legacy...

Anon

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:42:58 -0600

Let me be the first to say that I don't like the construction. But let's face it, this is marketing at its best. Of course its going to be all cloudy when you take pictures of water that is coming right off the construction area. The ground has been turned up, vegetation is removed and items are flowing freely. Now, show me Barton Springs this color and a video of them going up stream to the source and I'll bite. No, I wouldn't seim in that water that's all brown at the construction site, but I will swim in Barton Springs....well, let's say I'd rather. The people and the pee doesn't really do ti for me at the springs either.