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Facility Tours

*Dates and Times are Subject to Change

Barton Springs
Monday, August 29 – 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Barton Springs is located in Austin’s Zilker Park not far from the downtown Austin. There are four main spring orifices that are the only known habitat for the Barton Springs salamander, a federally listed endangered species. These four springs are the primary discharge point for the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer. Main Spring feeds the 750’ long swimming pool. There is a dam at each end of the pool; the upper dam directs flow from Upper Spring and Barton Creek into a bypass culvert so that stormwater flows do not enter the swimming area. Old Mill Spring is just south of Barton Creek about 450’ below the lower dam. The fourth spring, Eliza Spring, is adjacent to the swimming pool and is surrounded by a deep concrete amphitheater that used to also be a swimming hole but is now reserved for the salamanders.

In 2008, the fight to preserve Barton Springs was the subject of The Unforseen, a documentary co-produced by Robert Redford, who learned to swim there as a child. The movie uses the struggle over development in the Barton Creek watershed to illustrate the many clashes between private property rights and resource protection that are occurring across the country. The film drew great reviews, but some developers said it went too far and portrays them unfairly. Environmentalists said the movie is not hard enough on those who would develop lands at the expense of common resources like Barton Springs.


Texas Disposal Systems Landfill and Exotic Game Ranch
Monday, August 29 – 10am – 12pm

Located in Southeast Travis County, the Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc. (TDSL), the approximately 1,750 acre facility contains the landfill, recycling, composting, and ranching operations. TDSL opened its facility in February 1991, and is now operated under Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) permit #2123. This is the first permit ever issued in Texas for a totally integrated landfill offering a combination of disposal, recycling and composting.

The Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch and Pavilion is used as a working ranch and invited guest entertainment facility operation. The ranch land is comprised of land that is under permit for future landfill expansion and a portion of the buffer zone next to the landfill and compost operations. Cattle and other animals are raised and sold. The wildlife reserve is used primarily for animal production and sale to other ranches as well as endangered species conservation.


University of Texas Reactor
Tuesday, August 30 – 1:30pm – 3:30pm

The Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory (NETL) reactor, designed by General Atomics, is a TRIGA Mark II nuclear research reactor. The NETL is the newest of the current fleet of U.S. university reactors. The NETL reactor has in-core irradiation facilities and five beam ports. The reactor is capable of steadystate operation at power levels up to 1 MW or pulsing mode operation where powers as high as 1500 MW are achieved for about 10 msec.