Austin City Council will vote today on a project to install a new pedestrian bridge in Roy G. Guerrero Park. The bridge replacement has been delayed for years because of a more expensive challenge: stabilizing the disintegrating flood channel. | KUTnathan
The ravine has widened significantly due to erosion since the pedestrian bridge was damaged by floods in 2015.
Some people instead just walk over a broken chain-link fence and crawl down one side of the gorge and up the other."It's kind of dangerous at times, especially if it's wet. You probably shouldn't be here if it's wet. I've definitely slipped on it before," said Michael Wagoner, who was carefully navigating a precipitous trail through sharp rocks on his way to the disc golf course Wednesday."I'd like for it to be replaced, personally.
"It's really a man-made system that is now unravelling, and 2015 was really a tipping point for that system," said Janna Renfro, a supervising engineer with Austin's Watershed Protection Department."All the sudden we had very rapid erosion moving through the park up that channel. That erosion was multitudes of times faster than what we would see in normal creeks."Country Club Creek West began eroding rapidly after the floods carved a shorter path through the river.
Ultimately, city engineers created a small model of the creek in a laboratory to determine if the design they were proposing would hold the channel system in place. The model experiment told them they needed to go bigger.
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