So Is It Safe for My Dog to Swim in Austin This Summer?

City environmental scientist talks toxic algae forecast, mitigation

"...study has produced varying results, in places with varying sediment chemistry, possibly due to weather, says Bellinger: After August..."

April 14, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Boil Water Notice Caused by Human Error, Ongoing Problems

"Ultimately preventable" at Ullrich

"...– a measure of the amount of silt and sediment in the water that needs to be removed –..."

Feb. 18, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Enviro Groups Oppose Plans for Violet Crown Venue

20,000-seat venue would sit amidst Barton Creek preserve

"...sites that the city of Austin can inspect annually, sediment filters, and restrictive covenants to prevent the use of..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin Pilots New Tactics to Address Toxic Algae Blooms

Toxin found in Sculpture Falls poses greater risk to humans

"...buries the phosphorus, Bellinger explains. "It settles on the sediment surface, and binds the phosphate ions irreversibly. We're trying..."

Oct. 15, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Two Austin Art Shows You Don't Want to Miss

One closing, one opening, both extraordinary

"...of discs harvested unaltered from fields of local clay sediment – the cracked, dried mud now arranged circular and..."

Sept. 29, 2021 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

"Dogs Heal in Borderlandia: Andrea Muñoz Martinez"

In her solo exhibition at Link & Pin Gallery, the artist provides canine companions for a most colorful landscape

"...horizontal strips, one atop the other like layers of sediment. In several paintings, the boxes are so minute and..."

March 19, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...for a methane splat of molten goo – sonic sediment so potent, heavy, and writhing it cracks foundations and..."

Feb. 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Plan Your Psychedelic Weekend With These Levitation Picks

Nearly two-dozen choices ranging from the Flaming Lips to Elephant Stone

"...through aging analog pipelines, summoning a swirl of sonic sediment to rise as a swamp thing whose tapehead spits..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Music Feature by The Music Staff

The Top 10 Austin News Milestones of 2018

Days like these

"...while the utility dealt with a massive increase in sediment produced by the upstream flooding. The restrictions, initially anticipated..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Land for Water

The city is asking voters to send more money to a little-known program that protects Barton Springs

"...$1.6 million. An important part of this is excavating sediment from existing and newly discovered caves so that water..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Jābir ibn Hayyān first isolated around AD800. The grape sediment, called beeswing, is scraped from the bottom of wine..."

April 20, 2018 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Pinot in the City Brings Oregon to Austin

Willamette Valley wineries converge on JW Marriott

"...are a patchwork mix of volcanic basalt, ancient marine sediment, and a well-draining, silty loam. I'm simplifying here, but..."

Jan. 24, 2017 Food Post by Dave Randall

Nature's Treasures or Trail Mix

Banff Mountain Film Festival descends on the Paramount

"...in freshwater rock shelters of Southern Appalachia, but silt sediment pollution and moving rocks for tubing or play means..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Top 10 Environmental Stories

Local environmental news wasn't all bad this year

"...products. The sealants proved to be the source of sediment pollution in Barton Springs Pool, and Council's 2005 ban..."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Clean Is as Clean Does

Austin's success against sealants starts a trend

"...a dramatic decline of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the sediment of Lady Bird Lake over the last few years...."

June 20, 2014 News Column by Michael King

'New and Greatest Hits: Texas Biennial 2005-2011'

It's having so many artists working at such a high level that makes this show of past Biennial participants a success

"...conceptual and aesthetic piece. Hunt's grid of soil and sediment with mirrors is a solitary moment of reflection with..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Review by Caitlin Greenwood

They'll Knock Your Sakes Off

Austin restaurants pour passion into their sake programs

"...nigori, unfiltered and boasting tannic structure from the rice sediment. Their sakes are bolder than those of most modern Japanese..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Food Feature by Margaret Shugart

Barton Springs Pool Doesn't Need Renovation

"...next season’s floods easily filled it in with new sediment, and that now proposes a Disneyland-like renovation of the..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Postmarks

Hope Springs

A sincere, considered, and unembarrassed exploration of mature sexuality that's more drama than comedy.

"...Yes, there are top laughs, but what settles like sediment in the brain is how the film picks at..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Battle for Barton Springs: A Brief Timeline

Twenty years of progress

"...2003: Toxic chemicals are discovered in Barton Springs Pool sediment, source undetermined. The city of Kyle extends a development..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

April = Art

Festivals, galleries, and museums join forces to celebrate visual art all month long

"...latter, an untitled piece by Glenn Herbert Davis incorporating sediment, dog hair, dust, bullet casings, screws, and nails (reception..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

City Takes Business to Task Over Cleared Trees

Cleared trees could lead to flooding and other hazards, says city

"...be "development" – without seeking the proper permits, and sediment has entered the creek. "We have a review process..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Kirk Van Praag

"...Crier, apropos of the local songwriter's hardened and cracked sediment of a voice. Follow-up to The Wrest, his 2004..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Single-Stream Recycling

Why is Austin losing money from recycling when Dallas and San Antonio are making money?

"...such as mulching cardboard and using pulverized glass for sediment filtration, to cut down on what has to be..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

The Odessa Meteor Crater is the site of a serious intergalactic impact

"...conducted scientific studies at the site. Several feet of sediment were excavated from the partially filled 550- to 650-foot-diameter..."

April 18, 2008 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Conflict Over Conflict-of-Interest Provision

"...Removing the Conflict of Interest provision is the last sediment of Futrell’s made-up, policy-making city staff. The Conflict of..."

Feb. 18, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...in the form of storm water entering their habitat. Sediment can clog a salamander's external gills, impairing its ability..."

Dec. 21, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...the damages and cleanup costs for large amounts of sediment dumped into the once pristine Hamilton Creek. Attorney General..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

Making Waves

Barton Springs Pool in line for a fixer-upper

"...chunking rock for eight hours a day, affecting the sediment the way nature did." From this standpoint, Dries says..."

Aug. 3, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

AMD Not So Clean?

Sediment-laden runoff spotted flowing from Southwest Austin construction site of company's controversial Lone Star campus

"...fell on Austin early last week, large amounts of sediment-laden runoff were spotted flowing from the Southwest Austin construction..."

April 6, 2007 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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