Talk:Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas

Shoal Creek
I've created a new article. Please edit, add, and fix my mistakes.

There is some unsourced info here. I simply lost the source and couldn't find it again in the numerous references.

There are also a few things I left out.

1) Seiders Spring is of interest as a rhythmic spring. Its period is about 15 or 20 minutes. It varies from about the volume of a water faucet to a much heavier flow. You can hear the water roaring underground before it gushes forth. This phenomenon is familiar to many people but I could not find a reference to it at all.

2) Flooding has damaged the sewers in the creek much more frequently than the city acknowledges. I saw a manhole cover labeled “Sanitary Sewer” lying in the creek after a flood, and the water in the creek downstream from there (from about 14th Street to 8th Street) was black and foul, and did not return to a more normal appearance for several months. As I recall, the city denied that there had been a sewage leak.

Cheers. I'm glad to be done with this project and to turn it over to the community. Wastrel Way (talk) 21:35, 29 July 2018 (UTC)Eric
 * I found a source describing Seiders Spring's rhythmic behavior and also added to the history of these springs. I made a couple of minor changes as well. Wastrel Way (talk) 18:08, 14 August 2018 (UTC) Eric

Bare URLs
There are many URLs here. If the person who posted the headnote about bare URLs, or someone else, would identify which URLs have this problem, I will work with them to fix it. I thought I used good citations. News articles can expire and not be archived, I know, and what is the answer to that? Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 18:35, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Replying to myself... I don't see any bare URLs in the citations. Is "City of Austin, Watershed Protection Department, "Central Texas Wetland Plants", undated. Online at: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Watershed/blog/creekside/WetlandGuideByFamily_WEB.pdf" a bare URL? It's cited as well as it can be. These things are not published on paper. Yes, given the continual moving target presented by the City of Austin bureaucracy, it might well disappear or be moved to another URL. I've had no answer to my inquiry and I will delete the "Bare URLs" header if I don't get one. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric