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Longhorn work muddies Flat Creek
Ranch owner gets restraining order, but company continues building the pipeline
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
Austin American-Statesman
Friday, May 24, 2002
JOHNSON CITY - Fed by innumerable springs that bubble cool and clear from its bed, Flat Creek curves past 30-foot limestone cliffs, beach-soft sand and delicate ferns on its serpentine path to the Pedernales River.
No wonder that Child Inc., the nonprofit organization that runs Austin's Head Start program, jumped at the chance to buy the 600-acre Flat Creek Crossing Ranch at a fire-sale price when the government was selling off the property of failed savings-and-loans. And it's not surprising that the group went to court Thursday to protect the creek.
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