Save Our Springs Alliance

🚨Give now to help us keep the pressure on CTRMA’s disastrous MoPac ❌ expansion. 🗣️More than 8,000 public comments poured in before the May 3 deadline — by far the biggest public response we’ve ever seen on this project. The message was loud and clear: Austinites are tired of billion-dollar highway 🚧 boondoggles masquerading as transportation "solutions" while our water, trees, and public lands are put on the chopping block. ⚖️ Our Texas Public Information Act lawsuit is already producing results. CTRMA is now cooperating and has stated they intend to provide the records and attachments we requested. We are waiting for them to fully come through on that commitment, and we expect another update within the next week. This fight is far from over, and we need your help to fund the next round: 🔬 independent science ⚖️ legal action 📚 expert review 📢 public education & advocacy Please chip in today to help us stop this project before it’s too late.

Join us on May 23 for a day of good, fun, community AND service! We’re partnering with @supatxpaddleboards and @keeptxbeautiful to raise funds (and have fun) for @saveoursprings … on paddle boards! Don’t have one, don’t worry— they’ll be available on a DONATION basis, first come first served! Since 1990, Save Our Springs has fought to protect central Texas waters from overdevelopment, pollution and abuse. As we fight against data centers and Mopac expansion, we can’t forget about the everyday trash that finds its way into our beautiful lake. Come spent the day with good people and good vibes for a good cause! See the link in bio for details! #austin #bartonsprings #waterislife #atx #atxevents

💗TONIGHT! Come grab a tote, bust a move, and show some love for the springs! @shinyribs is playing a *FREE* show at @central.machine.works and we’ll have a cute SOS salamander tote made by the one and only Billie Buck @phlegm_fatale 🛍️ Commemorative totes are $5 or FREE if you purchase a tshirt or donate $20 💪 🦋Billie Buck is the genius behind some of Austin’s raddest music posters and merch, helps run the Antones Record Shop, and plays the sax! We are so honored by this incredible design, more collab merch otw 💖 🐗 Shinyribs needs no introduction, Austin Legend Kevin Russell is a longtime supporter of SOS and once frontman for The Gourds. #igotyourmedicine 🫶Come support SOS and blow off some steam 💨

💥SHINYRIBS @shinyribs at CMW @central.machine.works this Friday, May 8. Doors at 7, music at 8.💥 RSVP in BIO for this FREE SHOW presented by @resoundpresents 🍻Cold beer, 🎺 big brass, and insane 🎤talent from Kevin Russell and Co. (Hopefully we will be celebrating shutting down👇 the DATA CENTER and AI SURVEILLANCE subsidies City Council is trying to shove through tomorrow) See you there 😘

🚨 SHOW UP THURSDAY or SIGN UP TO SPEAK REMOTELY🚨 LINK IN BIO 😠City Council is about to vote on Item 24 a fast track to SUBSIDIZE and RECRUIT data centers + AI infrastructure into Austin. 🗓 THURSDAY, MAY 7 🕙 10:00 AM 📍 CITY HALL 301 W 2nd 🗣️Sign up to speak ONLINE by Wednesday at noon or in person by 8AM Thursday 🖇️ LINK IN BIO. If you are nervous or if it’s your first time, there will be LOTS of support at City Hall. Send us a message for helpful tips! 🫥 Harmless tech growth you say? NOPE>>> These industrial-scale facilities: 💧 Use millions of gallons of water a day (hello? Are we in an unprecedented drought?!) ⚡ Demand massive new power and $ billions in grid expansionism 🔥 Generate tremendous amounts of heat, noise, and pollution across entire regions 🫠 on April 1st, Austin’s Environmental Commission voted UNANIMOUSLY on a resolution to invoke a moratorium on DCs, halt incentives and expansion of data centers and require strong environmental protections, water and energy limits, transparency, and public oversight to keep this industry in CHECK. 🫣Council is moving in the opposite direction. Let’s stop this NOW. 😩 If you care about WATER, affordability, not to mention the ETHICAL implications of the AI surveillance industry, please SHOW UP. KEEP AUSTIN WETTT 🐕 PACK CITY HALL

🥰We are overwhelmed with the swell of joyful resistance and support in the final days of the MoPac South public comment period. 🌺@singingresistanceaustin @theawokenchild @jade_fusco @mattwearshatts @thetinarodriguez organized a beautiful event at the springs yesterday, where we sang to the waters and left CTRMA cranky voicemails. 🤣 throughout this swift and mighty campaign, we amassed over 6200 comments together. 🤗 Half of those comments came in in the last 72 hours.🦋Thank you to all the people with spheres of social influence standing up for the springs, and for each other. 💪WAKE UP, CTRMA! No one wants this concrete, plastic, and steel nightmare in our aquifer. Stay tuned for the next steps. This ain’t over, but for now we rest and bask in our collective voices 🎶🎵🎶

Today, 5/3/26, is the LAST DAY to post public comment in opposition of the new MoPac South tollway expansion that would put the soul of our city at jeopardy! [LINK IS IN MY BIO] Please go comment that there are better ways to reduce traffic in Austin than MORE HIGHWAYS!!

Giddy up partner, we’re having a good ol fashioned hootenanny on Saturday June 20th. Partial proceeds benefiting @saveoursprings . Live music from @texasrebelsatx @nlnaofficial @tarryandthetowns and more. Plus a hot dog eating competition and a local vendor marketplace. Early bird tickets on sale now at the link in the bio 🎟️ 📍How Much?! Studios @howmuchatx

🤬🤬🤬YOU HAVE 24 hours to COMMENT😭 Scroll through images of the mayhem of I-35 construction over the lake 😶‍🌫️ and get a taste of what we would see if 8.8 mile MoPac expansion moves forward. 🛣️ Not one, but TWO of our main arteries through town in total chaos for the next decade, destroying recreation AND sensitive recharge features in our region, and for what? TOLL LAMES, I mean lanes. 🫣 PLEASE SPEAK UP before Sunday at Midnight. Make a post. Share the link in bio. 🙏🏽 @emirilehra speaks truth to power in the last slide.

Link is in my bio!! Save our springs!! #austin #saveoursprings #bartonsprings

SING YOUR 🩵 OUT! Call 512-387-5811 and give CTRMA a 3-minute piece of your mind (sweetly). Tag someone for a duet 🎶 Link in bio to submit an email. Easy peasy. Let’s stop this monster.👹 ⏳COMMENT BY MAY 3rd + then join us that same day from 5-7PM at Barton Springs with @singingresistance 💖 enormous gratitude to the radiant voices featured here at the springs @jade_fusco @her.mana.music @thetinarodriguez 🛑 SOME FACTS 🛑 This is about Austin’s water, nature, and life as we know it. 👉CTRMA MoPac expansion is widening the highway 6-8 lanes for 8.8 miles from Slaughter Lane to Enfield Rd. 👉Entire project is within the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, an environmentally sensitive area, riddled with caves, endangered species, and flow paths leading to Barton Springs 👉 Endangered species habitat for Barton Springs Salamander, Austin Blind Salamander, Bee Creek Cave Harvestman, and Tooth Cave Spider 👉CTRMA is pushing for a FONSI (Finding of No Significant Impact) 👉 CTRMA is using outdated traffic data to prove we need this massive expansion 💪We demand a FULL Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)… not a shortcut! PLEASE HELP protect what can’t be replaced. Make your voice heard. By email 📧 phone ☎️ or carrier pigeon 🕊️

yall whaaaat??? submit ur feedback before May 3rd and stay aware of what’s going on!!! Source KUT Austin❤️ ily #austin #bartonsprings