Hamilton Pool cleanup will cost $2.3 million

From statesman.com, May 14, 2008...

Cleaning Hamilton Pool and the silt-covered, four-mile stretch of creek feeding it will cost about $2.3 million, a consultant hired by Travis County said Tuesday.

The consultant echoed county officials' previous claim that chalky gunk coating the bottom of the iconic swimming hole in the western corner of the county came from a housing development along the Hays-Travis county line. If the silt is not removed from the creek, it will eventually wash into the publicly owned pool, consultant Victoria Harkins told county commissioners.

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