Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Floods Do More Damage Than Disc Golf
RECEIVED Fri., July 9, 2010
Dear Editor,
Re: “No Discs, No Pease” [News, June 18]: As any regular disc golfer will attest to, the damage done to the Pease Park disc golf course, being the flood zone that it is, has been inflicted more by Mother Nature herself than disc golfers and other park patrons.
Earth-parching heat and drought, repeated heavy rains, and floods carving erosion gullies on both sides of Shoal Creek dwarf the damage disc golfers inflict on the disc park, which runs from 25th Street to the north hike-and-bike trail entrance at Eeyore's.
As of the Fourth of July the park looks great, assuming we don't have any more small tornadoes or 67 mph straight-line winds that wipe out shade trees. Or a flood.
And lest we forget the criminal element(s) disc golfers have helped to eradicate, rest assured, the park will not “rest,” as some members of the Austin Parks Foundation have opined, by closing the course at Pease. The criminal element will return, notwithstanding a promised new disc course to be paid for by the city with plans (and funds) outlined on some bar napkin at taxpayer expense.
Sara Hensley and her white-collar “experts” who don't have the money or workers to do their present duties are not who I'd trust to build the “world-class disc golf course” as promised, much less “fix” a flood zone or take care of the park as it is, for good or ill … mostly ill.
Re: “No Discs, No Pease” [News, June 18]: As any regular disc golfer will attest to, the damage done to the Pease Park disc golf course, being the flood zone that it is, has been inflicted more by Mother Nature herself than disc golfers and other park patrons.
Earth-parching heat and drought, repeated heavy rains, and floods carving erosion gullies on both sides of Shoal Creek dwarf the damage disc golfers inflict on the disc park, which runs from 25th Street to the north hike-and-bike trail entrance at Eeyore's.
As of the Fourth of July the park looks great, assuming we don't have any more small tornadoes or 67 mph straight-line winds that wipe out shade trees. Or a flood.
And lest we forget the criminal element(s) disc golfers have helped to eradicate, rest assured, the park will not “rest,” as some members of the Austin Parks Foundation have opined, by closing the course at Pease. The criminal element will return, notwithstanding a promised new disc course to be paid for by the city with plans (and funds) outlined on some bar napkin at taxpayer expense.
Sara Hensley and her white-collar “experts” who don't have the money or workers to do their present duties are not who I'd trust to build the “world-class disc golf course” as promised, much less “fix” a flood zone or take care of the park as it is, for good or ill … mostly ill.
Kurt Standiford
