White Water Rafting in Downtown Austin?
Oct 31, 2007
Seriously...and it would actually be super-sweet. "Waller Creek Whitewater Trail" a local group that's put together the proposition, says that it's actually perfect. In order to get ~1 million s.f. of downtown real estate out of the floodplain, the city has approved a $125m tunnel that's going to be used to divert water underneath the creek when it storms. This same tunnel can be used to pipe water up the creek from Town Lake (I refuse to call it Ladybird Lake) whenever it's NOT storming. By doing this, we can have controlled rapids in the middle of downtown Austin 365 days out of the year.
Let me say...I think this would be a first for any major city's downtown.
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