Waller Creek Working Group

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With this archive, our goal is to create a one-stop shop for data on Waller Creek in Austin, TX. Here we provide access to a compilation of data on Waller Creek that includes published and unpublished information across diverse formats including journals, government documents, maps, images, theses, raw data, class projects and more. This database includes information spanning a variety of fields including, but not limited to scientific, historical, cultural, architectural, public policy and social. If you are aware of other resources on, or have created information about, Waller Creek, please consider sharing it with us at: https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/waller_creek_working_group/home. This project is ongoing with the first set of data added to the TSW in spring 2018. We are cleaning and processing hundreds more documents to add to this archive, with expectations of completing the first round of this project in early 2019 with over 500 resources. This project was generously funded by the UT Green Fee.

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A Possible Return of Texas Palmettos to Waller Creek — Pure Speculation
(University of Texas at Austin College of Biological Sciences, 2003) Harms, Bob
Why Joe Harris Came to the University
(University of Texas at Austin, 1920-04-25) University of Texas at Austin
Waller Creek Corridor Framework Plan
(City of Austin, 0000-00-00) City of Austin Watershed Protection Department
Tracing the Evolution of Water Quality in Waller Creek on the UT-Austin Campus
(University of Texas at Austin, 2014) Heitmann, Emma O.; Wong, Corinne L.; Senison, Jeff; Banner, Jay L.
Gap Analysis of Fish in the Hydrologic Unit 12090205 of Central Texas
(Graduate School of Texas Tech University, 2004-12) Wang, Fajin
GAP analysis has been successfully used to predict the biodiversity and develop conservation priorities on land on a broad scale since 1987. Its application to aquatic ecosystems started in New York in 1995 on a watershed scale and in Missouri in 1997 on a statewide scale. No complete standard method is currently in use. This project attempted to apply GAP analysis to the eight-digit hydrologic unit 12090205 of the Colorado River basin in central Texas to identify and prioritize opportunities for conserving fish biodiversity in the riverine ecosystems, and to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the GAP analysis approach to the aquatic ecosystem in Texas. The regular GAP analysis procedures were followed in the study. Sampled fish data were compiled and put into a customized Microsoft Access® relational database. The watershed-wide "known" distribution maps were produced by geographically linking each sample to the National Hydrologic Dataset (NHD) which allows the graphical display of sampling locations, and spatially cross-referencing these data in a tabular format. The riverine ecosystems were classified into Valley Segment Types using ArcGIS® (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc). The eight variables for the classification were Size, Size Discrepancy, Gradient, Valley Wall Interaction Points, FIow, Rocktype, Floodplain and Land Use/Land Cover. Additional auxiliary attributes, Lowland, Soil pH, Pool, Lake, Backwater, Gravelpits, Mouth and Sewage, were also assigned to each segment. Habitat affinities were compiled and extracted from a number of available sources. New habitat-affinity information was also generated from the sampling database in conjunction with the valley-segment datalayer. Habitat-affinity models were then created using Structured Query Language (SQL) and were used to predict species occurrence on valley segments for each species known to occur in the study area. Logistic-regression models also were developed and employed to predict of species occurrence for the purposes of references and comparison. The variables Water Quality, Land Use/Land Cover, Road/Rail Road and Dam were used to classify the valley segments to develop an index of environmental quality for fish. The environmental quality index, the predicted fish biodiversity and the number of fish species of special concern (i.e., endemic to Texas, endangered/threatened and with a state rank from S2 to S4) were combined to develop the conservation priority ranks for each segment. The segments with a prior conservation rank were calibrated with the current conservation status and feasibility. The results show that I) the segments with high environmental quality are in Barton Creek, in the upper portion of Onion Creek and in the Balcones Canyonlands; 2) predicted fish diversity is expected to be highest in midsized streams; and 3) three groups of segments were identified as candidate conservation sites. They are i) the lower portion of Barton Creek, ii) the group of segments including three segments of Colorado River, Coldwater Creek, and three adjacent segments, and iii) two lower segments of Onion Creek and two segments of Colorado River right downstream of the City of Austin. The segments with high conservation priority after calibration are in the second group, and they are the gap for conservation; 4) the GAP analysis approach used in this study was shown to be a feasible method for developing conservation priorities in central Texas.
Waller Creek Local Government Corporation: July 2016 Progress Report
(Waller Creek Local Government Corporation, 2016-07) Pipkin, Kristin; Coronado, Jessica; Hicks, Aaron; Gagnon, Kelly
Three proposed towers near Waller Creek could be Austin's tallest buildings
(KVUE, 2013-05-04) Green, Shelton
Waller Creek public meetings planned
(Kxan, 2015-08-05) Inns, Alicia
The Battle for Waller Creek: The Protests of the Tree Removal of 1969
(UT History Center, 1969) Unknown
Waller Creek projects will revitalize downtown ecology and economic development
(The Daily Texan, 2014-01-22) Mahoney, Alyssa
Lady Bird Johnson Reviews Waller Creek Planning
(City of Austin, 0000-00-00) Unknown
The Natural History of an Urban Creek: Waller Creek
(Austin Water Utility Center for Environmental Research, 2012-09-20) Anderson, Kevin M.
Waller Creek Light Show will intertwine nature and design
(The Daily Texan, 2014-11-12) Cantrell, Mary
UTPD responds to possible homicide in Waller Creek
(The Daily Texan, 2016-04-06) Wong, Caleb; Jaramillo, Cassandra
Going With the Flow: The next life of Waller Creek
(The Austin Chronicle, 2013-01-11) Phillips, Ari
Waller Creek 1915 Flood Aftermath
(City of Austin, 0000-00-00) Unknown
Waller Creek Fact Sheet
(City of Austin, 2017) City of Austin
Waller Creek Restoration & Rehabilitation Project: An Environmentally Responsive / Green Project
(Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc., 2003) Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc.; Espey Consultants, Inc.
Waller Creek lights up for one night
(Kxan, 2014-11-13) Kxan News Staff
Man's Body Found in Downtown Austin's Waller Creek
(Time Warner Cable News, 2016-06-10) TWC News Staff

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