Shoal Creek Greenbelt Update

Shoal Creek Channel Stabilization Project Mini Tour-June 27, 10 a.m. You are invited to attend a mini tour of a stretch of Shoal Creek between Gaston and West 29th Streets on Tuesday, June 27, at 10 a.m. The purpose of the tour is to view an area of the creek where old sewer lines and concrete casings will be removed as part of the Austin Clean Water Program (ACWP). These Shoal Creek banks are being fitted with $1 million worth of limestone fillings and native plants to overcome erosion. The hike and bike trail has also been rebuilt at this location. Representatives of neighborhood associations, residents and businesses will be invited to meet at Shoal Creek Park, which is just off Lamar at the Shoal Creek Bridge, to participate in the tour and hear an explanation of the project from the project manager, Stan Evans. Light refreshments will be served. The contractor is scheduled to begin the project in late June. Call 684-3204 to RSVP.

Dedication and Naming of the new Shoal Creek Pedestrian Bridge in Honor of Janet Fish - July 25, 11:30 a.m. In the 1950s, Janet Fish and her family spent many personal hours and thousands of dollars of their own money to create the Shoal Creek hike and bike trail from Pease Park north past 34th Street. Now in her mid-80s, Ms. Fish - the daughter of the late civic patriarch Walter E. Long - still lives in the family home on Shoal Creek. She and her family chopped down weeds and brush, planted trees and wild flowers, hauled in water, picked up trash and formed the Junior Deputies to help maintain and patrol the trail. Her dedication to the Austin community will be recognized in a ceremony which will name the newly-completed Shoal Creek Pedestrian Bridge just south of West 29th Street in her honor. The bridge dedication will be held Tuesday, July 25, at 11:30 a.m., at the bridge. Light refreshments will be served. Ms. Fish will be joined by her two sons, Andrew and John Fish. The bridge construction was made possible by the Austin Water Utility's Austin Clean Water Program in concert with the departments of Public Works, Watershed Protection and Parks and Recreation. Please call 684-3204 to RSVP.