Save Our Springs Alliance
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Save Our Springs Alliance (SOS) was originally called the Save Our Springs Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit corporation created to protect the citizen-drafted SOS Ordinance of 1992 to conserve Barton Springs in Austin, Texas.[1]
The Ordinance was written by citizens in reaction to the City's "Composite Ordinance," which citizens regarded as insufficient to save Barton Springs.
[edit] History
It all began in 1990 when Freeport McMoRan, a mining company, threatened to develop 4,000 acres (16 km²) of land it owned along Barton Springs. When it came time for City Council to approve the development, though, an all-night meeting ensued wherein citizens decried the company's actions and professed their love of Barton Springs, what many refer to as the "Soul of the City."
Today, SOS works with groups in the larger Edwards Region with a collective goal of conserving the Greater Edwards Aquifer Ecosystem, which is now chartered in the "Edwards Aquifer Protection Plan." [2]
Developers still threaten to develop in areas damaging to Barton Springs.
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