Save Our Springs Alliance

🌧️Now that’s what you call a “gullywasher”. Barton Creek is *brimming* like it’s 2021 and Barton Springs is officially closed until further notice ⏹️ Be safe out there, yall.

❤️‍🔥And how apropos to be fighting Hays Commons on the 36th anniversary of the Barton Creek Uprising.📚We know YOU know this story, so tag SOMEONE who doesn’t...

On June 7th, 1990, over 1000 citizens showed up at Austin City Hall to protest the “Barton Creek PUD,” a 4,000 acre development proposed for the banks of Barton Creek by Freeport McMoRan, a global mining company that was the single largest discharger of toxic pollutants into the waters of the United States. Austin citizens from all walks of life took their allotted 3 minutes to tell the city council to vote “no” on the massive development proposal. After taking testimony throughout the night, the City Council voted unanimously the next morning to deny the development approval. The event triggered Austin’s “save our springs” movement followed by the passing of the SOS Ordinance in 1992.

🫀And so it continues, and we carry this movement in our hearts. Keep showing up, writing in, continue taking to the streets to fight the RUSE of progress at the cost of clean water and our humanity. Photographs by Alan Pogue, 1990.