Save Barton Creek Association

Donate to Save Oak Hill. Stop the concrete batch plant. Fix the destructive highway design. ALL FUNDS GO TO SAVE OAK HILL!

Please donate today to help Oak Hill Neighbors fight back against air pollution, the degradation of Williamson Creek, and the destruction of the fabric of this community!

Donate Today to Keep this Community a Community, not a Pass Through.

Your donation of up to $2500 will be matched by generous members of the community now, through July 31, 2021.  Every dollar goes toward legal expenses and publicity of Oak Hill Neighbors.

TxDOT is preparing to begin construction on a massive elevated freeway in Oak Hill known as the Oak Hill Parkway. All along, neighbors and community groups including the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods, Save Oak Hill, and Save Barton Creek Association have asked TxDOT to consider a less destructive, wasteful, and outdated design for the highway. The community's preference for an at-grade parkway that would preserve a Williamson Creek greenbelt park, historic trees, and the Oak Hill community was ignored. 

The impacts of TxDOT's plans on Oak Hill are only getting worse.

They now plan to put a concrete batch plant in proximity to residential areas of Oak Hill for the length of the highway construction, operating twenty-four hours a day, adding up to five to seven years!

How does this affect the community?

-Noise and light pollution

-Idling trucks spreading diesel fumes

-Particulate matter such as cement, dust, and metals from concrete production

Note that all the proposed sites are less than a one-third mile from homes, daycare centers, churches, retail businesses, and apartment complexes.

Your donation will support educational outreach, advocacy, the legal effort related to TxDoT’s proposal to construct a toxic concrete batch plant in an inappropriate location, and other issues associated with the imminent construction of a 12-lane elevated mega-highway rather than a lower impact ground-level parkway. Save Barton Creek Association is only supporting Oak Hill neighborhoods as the GoFundMe administrator.  

 If you would like to learn more, go to the neighborhood website https://oakhillatxneighbor.wixsite.com/noconcrete

Additionally, if you would like to make your opposition publically known by "adopting a tree", please contact Sydney below.

Donate to help Save Barton Creek Association hire a campaign organizer and increase our capacity to effectively organize against wastewater pollution!

A permit has been filed that seeks approval to pipe up to 92,000 gallons per day of treated sewage into Long Branch, a tributary of Barton Creek. The proposed sewage plant would be near the intersection of U.S Hwy 290 and Sawyer Ranch Road. This would cause algae blooms, risks to aquatic life, and potential danger to recreational users downstream.  There are many alternatives to putting polluting wastewater effluent into small streams like Barton Creek including applying it to land and beneficially reusing it on landscaping. One individual's profit motive shouldn't be allowed to ruin the creek for the miles of downstream users. 

Save Barton Creek Association has been organizing opposition to this permit. We received a $7,000 grant from Patagonia to work on this permit and a broader campaign against wastewater pollution.  

Help us match that and raise another $7,000 to increase our effectiveness and allow us to hire a part time wastewater campaign organizer. We need your help!

Additional Facts--
A City of Austin study shows this plan would cause algae blooms for miles downstream, resulting in low-oxygen levels that kill aquatic species and harm their habitats.

Wastewater plants in Texas have a bad history or plant failures and spills leading to contaminants like e. coli bacteria in waterways. This is especially concerning for well-owners and those recreating downstream. 

There has never been a direct stream discharge of wastewater effluent in the contributing zone of the sensitive Edwards Aquifer. 

One individual's profit motive shouldn't be allowed to ruin the creek for miles of downstream users. 

The treatment plant needs approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), the state regulating agency.

Unfortunately this pollution threat is not limited to this single permit. Our friends are fighting similar threats into waterways region-wide including in the Blanco River and Honey Creek.

SBCA and others formed the No Dumping Sewage campaign prevent the direct discharge of sewage into our creeks and advocate for better wastewater management. Learn more: https://nodumpingsewage.org


How You Can Help:

Your contribution will help SBCA advocate for wastewater alternatives that benefit the community and environment instead of harming our water with excess nutrients, bacteria and potential spills of raw sewage. 


Take Action By:

1) Donate and share this Go Fund Me.

2) Sign the No Dumping Sewage petition 

3) Join us for Bluegrass and Beer to learn more about the sewage pollution that threatens Barton Creek and other waterways in central Texas (Oct. 11 | 6-9 PM | Jester King Brewery. Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/668392803653429/



With your support, we can protect our communities and waterways from sewage pollution! Thank you!