Shoal Creek tunnel one option for taming flood-prone waters

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The city of Austin’s Watershed Department is about to take on Mother Nature in a bid to control the destructive moods of Shoal Creek once and for all. A $900,000 year-long study will examine a plethora of ways to redirect or tame damaging flood waters, city documents show.
Among the ideas on the table, building a large tunnel to Lady Bird Lake, similar to the nearly-completed Waller Creek tunnel in Waterloo Park. The Waller Creek project is designed to redirect tons o