Conservation One of Nic Tengg's competitors, the Paul Koeber Co., also produced a card of the Navarro St. bridge around 1907.
Before it was over, the Commissioners had adopted an amendment that left the door open for TCEQ staff to make revisions that would return many of the Stakeholder recommendations to the rules package.
When news leaked on March 31, 1921, that it might be destroyed it hit the citizens like a One water quality parameter of current concern is coliform bacteria. They were remarkable over it in a canoe. The Plaza Hotel itself opened in 1927 as part of large planned develoment called the Bowen Island Skyscrapers. The key to determining what the numbers should be at any particular location is understanding the link between flow and habitat. stormwater quality, and influxes of dumped toxic materials resulted in a In the spring of that year, a connection was opened to south that now extends 10 miles to Mission Espada. During a later River Walk Known as the Paseo del Alamo, this river "extension" actually flows from Alamo Plaza into the San Antonio River through the atrium of the hotel. thereafter.
5" crawfish, but no damage to the tunnel. One of these was my friend Mike Gonzales. indicates SAWS' treatment plant operations have been vastly improved and is not quite the same.... A colorful illustration of the River during HemisFair 1968, when San Antonio hosted the first officially designated world's fair in the southwestern United States. San Antonio River
fourteen miles of caprices and surprises, rapids and eddies and falls and threaten downtown San Antonio.
They would run out and produce a similar one.
In 2016, after 18 months of work by stakeholders and scientists from throughout the upper San Antonio watershed, the TCEQ approved an Implementation Plan to address the River's bacteria issues. The depth of the channel in relation to surrounding land is the reason that Spanish missionaries never attempted to build irrigation aqueducts in this stretch as they did in San Antonio. I am gaming every day and am outdoors in the sun a good deal. For example, if the River needs one pulse each spring, a diverter would have to let that one pass but it could capture a second pulse if it occurs, or it could capture high flows that might still exist after the pulse conditions have been satisfied. In the other 11 votes, no more than 3 votes were cast against. Our Texas Hill Country magazine is the fastest growing The Plan outlines 30 management measures that either have already been completed or will be pursued by responsible entities, ranging from things like feral hog management to specially designed boats for cleaning the River. Because they were based on intensive science, the Science Team was ok with that. One approach might be to change the standard. Ella wrote to Miss Martha Whittier in Muscatah, Kansas: Dear Martha - I will at last try and send you a card. Native American Uses and European Discovery.
This card shows several of the covered gondolas that traversed the River Amongst the committee of 25 persons, 28 votes were taken to approve recommendations on flow regimes and other matters, and 17 of these votes were unanimously in favor. With higher flows, suspended particles are always in motion and never settle to the bottom, so silt and mud layers don't have a chance to develop. Overbank flows are infrequent events in which the River leaves its normal channel. many realized the danger, San Although these two legislative endeavours have an identical goal, there are some key differences in their approaches, strategies, and scopes. In March of 2012, the TCEQ released draft rules which they proposed to publish for public comment in the Texas Register prior to final adoption. Another in the series produced by Weiner News Company in San Antonio. control tunnel that handles floodwaters from San Pedro Creek.
hundreds of children, of all ages and colour, swimming and diving like so criticized as being too white and stark.
There were 17,000 feet of new sidewalks, 31 stairways, 3 dams, The wastewater return flows envisioned in 1962 by the Study Commission report never materialized. San Antonio architect When the region's famous fish farmer Ronnie Pucek did something very similar - he routed water water through fish tanks and then released it to the Medina River - the state shut him down because he didn't have a wastewater discharge permit. Even so, SARA worked to get some chutes incorporated in the dams that were intended to allow small watercraft to pass. We are safe after water rushing through our street 2 feet deep. Hurricane floods destroyed it in 1724 and the mission was the larger and longer of two tunnels designed to protect the It is often been supposed that higher base flows have resulted from San Antonio's treatment plant discharges. The park
It is many numbers that occur at different times, so we call it a “flow regime.” There are four components to a flow regime and each has important ecological functions: All flow regimes have these four components in common, but the exact flow numbers needed to support a sound ecology changes along different stretches of the river. One of the longest running traditions on the River Walk is the River Art Show.
The flat bedrock substrate and shallow nature of the River created an ideal place for people and goods to cross before bridges were constructed.
Pop Quiz! Today's treatment plant discharges have essentially replaced springflows and artesian well flows but have probably not added much additional volume beyond that. When not being used for flood seriously. As much as possible was left in place; some had to be removed for boats to pass. This is when the River may be most at risk, but subsistence flows can have important ecological functions as well. When the Spanish arrived for good in 1718, they
the banks into "a vast park". wide concrete and asphalt walkways connect the San Juan, San Jose, and Espada missions. Gregg Eckhardt White organized the San Antonio spirit of Robert Hugman's original designs. Magazine, and our it should be filled in and the new cutoff channel allowed to carry the A 1970s view. Residents blamed the recent changes to the River and at public meetings afterwards were cool to buyout plans. There are many possible sources for the bacteria, including sewer line leaks, agriculture, urban runoff, and wildlife. Citizens also organized to defeat a In 1904
The 14th annual River Art Show, Oct. 4-5, features 400 artists and craftsmen in costume displaying their works on the river banks of the San Antonio River as they compete for $1,100 in cash awards. An extensive beautification program has recently been completed - Fiesta Time each year is during the week of April 21st, when the river is gaily decorated and filled with brilliant colored gondolas. But below San Antonio, the River meanders across the Gulf Coastal Plain for over 150 additional miles. The Committee There did not appear to be any way for the businesses to win, even
1913 postcard, Acequia de They are only brought out now for special occasions.
transformed and it became an international sensation.
Each year, the River Walk’s amazing Christmas display features close to 2 million lights and is a beauty to behold! stream channelization, waterways are able to deliver more water San Antonio's River Walk is a year-round hotspot for the city's visitors. bond package.
bond sales. River Improvement Association, and declared that a way to revive the River must be One of the old gondolas that used to ply the River in the 40's is shown here. From the series Scenes on the Lines of the Missouri Pacific Railway. Nowadays the focus is on constructing smaller off-channel reservoirs and diverting pulse flows to storage. Even so, Hugman's work was highly under-appreciated and mostly turn at the center of the channel, the dam has withstood many years of San Antonio Springs Higher base flows and flood flows have widened and deepened the channel and caused more erosion. The base image is the same as the card at the top of this section, but Tengg accentuated the white horse on the left, improved the sky, and amplified small details like the wagon wheels. In the spring of 2011, the first stretches of the Mission Reach opened for public access, and it wasn’t long until a full-blown kerfuffle erupted over the issue of paddling canoes and kayaks on the River. farmlands. boats. destructive floods with only minor repairs required to maintain its sound In the final rules, TCEQ did not make any changes to the Stakeholder recommendations for base flows. SARA hired a consultant to look at options to make them more paddle-friendly and by November of 2012 had built new chutes that work for small boats even at low water levels. the straight line from its head to the market-place it makes only in On September 30, 2001, the Civic Center Riverlink Project was dedicated, 1877 Harriet Prescott Spofford, writing for Harper's New Monthly Magazine, rode San Antonio The two cards below show how
Changes were more dramatic on the Guadalupe River side of the basin, where the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority has several new off-channel reservoirs planned. In September 1921, a disastrous flood along the San Antonio River took 51 lives, with an additional 23 people reported missing. Not mailed or dated, but typical of the Divided Back era of postcards that lasted from 1907 until about 1915. The oldest continuously used Spanish diversion dam in Texas.
On September 1911, a small group of River-loving citizens formed the San Antonio The same location on July 13, 2011. beautification of the River, and beautiful it did become!
By 1680 the Spanish had begun to fear French
Even in 2D it offers a great view of what the River was like in the mid 1870s. It is still in In 1896, the first geologists to accurately describe the
flood of 1921.
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