Waller Creek Design and Vision Workshop

Waller Creek Design Workshop
9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007
Austin City Hall (301 W. 2nd St.)
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City Council Member Sheryl Cole and the Waller Creek Citizen Advisory Committee are asking the public for input regarding the Waller Creek corridor at a design workshop 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, at Austin City Hall. Displays from the joint venture engineering team will be, uh, displayed. Silly ideas like rock-climbing and whitewater kayaking will be humored.

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By Shawn Shillington in News on November 8, 2007 11:10 AM 0 Comments

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tremorviolet

Nah, the docks aren't on Waller Creek; they're on Town Lake. This picture is showing Town Lake right where Waler Creek hits it. If you wanna see what the area looks like now, go to the very end of Trinity and walk down (to the east of the Four Seasons). The areas gonna change a lot 'cause to make Waller Creek a constant level creek (like Riverwalk in San Antonio), you have to have a way to pipe water back up to the beginning.

Sean_Sallier

How is it in that plan they call for an IH35 makeover when the interstate is owned by the Federal Government and not the City nor State?

LoudMouth

They have rowing club docks on Waller Creek?

tremorviolet

The docks are for the Austin Rowing Club. There are similar docks currently in place. The ampitheatre was sketched in as a way to hide the intake pipe but PARD has already said that's a bit more than they want at that location so it probably won't happen.

LoudMouth

What is up with page 1 on the pdf design? It looks like it was made in Paint by a 10 year old.

KatintheHat

That drawing looks awesome. I can't wait to see Shamu!

Mowank

Whitewater is the best idea. Anything short of it is crap.

SolMan

Ditto on the whitewater rafting, that's cool and weird. All they have to do is increase the flow rate of the pumps. It's a pretty minor engineering change at this point. Somebody will have to pay the power bill. But you can charge the rafters a fee to cover that.

happywaffle

Aww, why you hatin' on the whitewater rafting? That idea sounds pretty slick to me.

Shawn Shillington

The image is of the proposed ampitheatre at the outlet. This presentation has as much information about the proposed project as I have seen, although presumably more will be available at the workshop:

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/council/downloads/waller_water_works_pres.pdf

heyzeus

What is that thing? Is such an ampitheatre being proposed? Is that the boat dock/regatta launch point where Waller Creek goes into Lady Town Bird Lake?