1976
Winter 1977
December 21, 2006

The Purola Preserve ‘Swimming Hole’
Deadman's Creek, N. Hays County

by Bob Harms ()
In 1976 on Purola there were two small 'falls' where the rock shelf of the creek bottom had collapsed and the soft layers underneath had eroded away to the next rock layer below (a typical Glen Rose limestone terrace formation). For one of these I decided to remove the accumulated silt down to the second layer, shoveling the gravel and mud out of the creek bottom by hand. Eventually I managed to create a pool roughly 3 to 5 feet deep. Each flooding brought more silt, which had to be removed, again lifting one shovel load at time out of the water. When the pool area dried up for the first time ever in December 2006 removing the sand, mud and other debris was much simpler. The flooding of 2007 brought a lot of debris and silt. The weak flow caused by the drought of 2008 made swimming unsafe. But when the pool dried again in January 2009 I once more dug it back to the rock bottom.


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January 30, 2009
February 18, 2009 		XAST dry pool, 8 Oct 09
Cocklebur & white boneset — October 8, 2009

pool fullplus 23 Nov 09
Drought over — November 23, 2009