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Barton Springs Pool
Spring-fed swimming hole at a near-constant chill, once the center of a bitter development fight.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Barton Springs Pool in Austin centers on Gary Bradley, a developer who spent the nineteen eighties and nineties fighting the city's environmentalists over Circle C Ranch, a planned town he built on the aquifer that feeds these springs. It follows the Save Our Springs movement his projects helped provoke, and the debt he eventually could not outrun. Stand at the spring's edge and you are standing on the exact ground both sides fought over.
This audio guide was created using AI.