Material in this collection applies to overall work of the NWACA organization. Items specific to particular committees can be found on their specific committee pages.
The Travis County Master Gardeners Association and the Travis
County AgriLife Extension sponsor public seminars on gardening topics
throughout the year at different locations.Some are free, and some require preregistration and a small fee.For details, go to:http://tcmastergardeners.org/what/edseminars.html
Upcoming
Events:
Caring for Your Lawn Saturday, June 29,
2013, 10am-12pm Zilker Botanical Garden
Loveable Daylilies Thursday, July 11,
2013, 10am-12pm Travis County AgriLife Extension Office, 1600-B Smith Road
Setting Up and Using Drip Irrigation Saturday, July 13,
2013, 10am-12pm Zilker Botanical Garden
Fall-Winter Vegetable Gardening
Thursday, August 8, 2013 Travis County AgriLife Extension Office, 1600-B Smith Road
Rainwater Harvesting
Saturday, August 10, 2013, 10am-12pm Zilker Botanical Garden
To help us become a Firewise community, we have much work ahead of us in NWACA, to make our homes fire-adapted, that is, able to withstand the embers from a wildfire that might occur in our greenbelt. To help individual homeowners identify things they can do to establish a defensible area around their homes and to harden the home itself, we need a cadre of trained home wildfire assessors.
The Austin Fire Department will be offering a class on becoming a home wildfire assessor on July 13th, and another one on July 14. The training is a one-day session, involving both classroom and practical experience examining several area homes for wildfire risks. The attached flyer provides more information.
If you are interested in taking the training, please send email to nwacaweb@gmail.com .
Please click on the attachment, or navigate to the set of newsletters
using the Newsletters
entry to the left. To be able to use the embedded links in the
newsletter, please download the file and then open it to view it with
Adobe Acrobat.
Note that with this month's issue, we're making a transition to publishing late in the month, so what we publish is fresh for the month named in its title. At the end of July, we'll publish the August newsletter, and proceed in that way going forward.
Press Release - May 17, 2013 - Central Texas Regional
Mobility Authority
Lane
Closures Planned
(Austin, Texas) – Intermittent night time lane
closures will begin on MoPac (Loop 1) between Lady Bird Lake and Parmer Lane
beginning Sunday, May 19, 2013 and continuing through the end of July. The lane
closures are needed to allow roadway designers to survey the corridor and
collect soil samples for construction of the MoPac Improvement Project. To
minimize traffic impacts, the lane closures will only occur between the hours
of 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. Lane closures will be brief, with surveyors spending
approximately 15 minutes at each location. Significant noise or light impacts
are not anticipated during these operations. The survey work will also involve
low altitude helicopter flights over the corridor. Those flights are expected
to take place the week of May 28th between the daytime hours of 9:00 a.m. and
3:00 p.m.
Drilling rigs will be deployed the week of May
28th to collect the soil samples. Because the work will occur at night, the
drilling rigs may disturb nearby neighbors. Nighttime noise will be an ongoing
issue for the duration of the project, as much of the work will occur at night.
There will be no lane closures during special events or on holidays, including
the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend.
The MoPac Improvement Project involves the
addition of one Express Lane in each direction on an 11-mile stretch of MoPac
from Lady Bird Lake to Parmer Lane and includes the construction of more than
7-miles of sound walls, bicycle and pedestrian improvements and aesthetic
enhancements. Construction is expected to begin in the fall of 2013 and be
completed by late 2015. The project team will be implementing a comprehensive
community outreach program to keep corridor residents and drivers informed
about the project. For more information visit www.MopacExpress.com
About the Mobility Authority
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority is
a local, independent government agency created to improve the regional
transportation system. Our mission is to implement innovative solutions that
reduce congestion and create transportation choices that enhance quality of
life and economic vitality. The Mobility was created in October 2002 to serve
Travis and Williamson counties. The Mobility Authority operates the 183A toll
road in Williamson County, is constructing the Manor Expressway and is adding
Express Lanes to Loop 1 as part of the MoPac Improvement Project.
On Saturday, April 27, we had a presentation on deer-resistant and drought-resistant gardening, followed by a tour of neighborhood yards with landscaping that illustrated many of the examples discussed.
For those who weren't able to attend, you can see two presentations from that event and a list of drought-resistant plans for our neighborhood in our NWACA Library at the left. Look for the items with a 2013 Apr 27 date.
posted Apr 9, 2013, 9:52 PM by NWACA webmaster
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updated Apr 29, 2013, 8:13 AM
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NWACA
will provide Household Hazardous Waste collection for NWACA members between
8 and 10 AM on June 1. Volunteers will staff a drop-off location
at Doss Elementary School’s north parking lot. Enter from Northledge
Drive in front of the school (one way northbound from North Hills
Drive). We’ll be accepting these items which you cannot dispose of in
household trash: ·
Batteries - vehicle and household
Oil – used motor oil and oil
filters
Paint – Latex and oil
Antifreeze
Fluorescent light bulbs
(unbroken only)
We cannot accept Electronics at this collection,
but you can drop them off at the Goodwill store just across the street.
Please follow these rules for a safe
collection event:
Liquids must be in containers
with secure lids and have no leaks.
Items should be dropped off in
cardboard box(es) to enable efficient handling.
Items can be dropped off only
between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. on June 1.
You must drive through the
collection site and hand your items to one of the volunteers loading the
transport truck.
Only the items listed
above can be handled in this collection. The volunteers doing the transport do
not have certifications and qualifications to handle anything more
hazardous. If you have other materials that need to be disposed of you
need to take them directly to City of Austin’s Household Hazardous Waste
Facility (hours and map here.)
The June 1 event is limited to dues-paying NWACA
members. The Treasurer will be at Doss during the collection hours so you can
join NWACA or renew an expired membership then, paying the $25 annual dues in cash or
by check.
To widely publicize the Citizens Redistricting process,
the City Auditor has created "10-ONE: Austin’s Districting Portal"
that contains information on the Citizen Redistricting process, including
background information, applicant qualifications and news.
Information on the process and upcoming events can also
be accessed via the Office of City Auditor social media sites on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AustinAuditor
and Twitter (@AustinAuditor).
