MORE ON AUSTIN'S BARTON SPRINGS

The Save Our Springs Alliance website relates even more disturbing news about the water quality at the Barton Springs Pool and a discovery that may have environmental impacts on a national scale:

This in fact has been the pattern of research into pollution from urban runoff: more extensive research quite often reveals pollution much worse than expected. And Barton Springs and Barton Creek are among the most heavily studied and most vulnerable watersheds in the world. Ultimately, and somewhat ironically, the Statesman’s greatest contribution to Austin, Barton Springs, and the nation may well be in helping draw attention to the fact that urbanization is an even greater threat to our nation’s waters.

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