Lake Travis View (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 23, 1986 Page: 1 of 16
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Lake Travis View
Wednesday, July 23. 1986
Volume 1 Number 21
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Official opening
Maureen Robertson cuts the ribbon to
mark the official opening of Vineyard
Bay and the dedication of the 16'/4-foot
tall brass and mahogany doors sanction-
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lease agreement has not been signed.
According to Kirk Cowan of the
LCRA Land Department, problems
with liability and property damage in-
surance arose with the new lease agree-
ment, as insurance costs had soared to
$5 million for the LCRA "to cover
itself” in case of lawsuits. LCRA of-
ficials requested that the county indem-
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Educational facilities
Two construction projects ready to bid—See Page 3
More live music
Branding Iron opening beer garden—See Page 10
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Bj MIKE BURTON
View Staff
Hamilton Pool, a park covering 232
acres in western Travis County on
Hamilton Pool Road (FM 3238), will be
open the last weekend this month for
visitors and swimmers for a $3 admis-
sion fee, Travis County Precinct 3
Commissioner Pam Reed announced
last week.
The commissioner said chlorination
systems will be added to the 230-foot
mission. Carving on the door took
40,000 manhours. More details on the
doors are on page 14. (View Photo by
Diane Lee)
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Insurance problems stymie
Mansfield park development
Weekend opening set
for Hamilton Pool
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By MIKE BURTON
View Staff
Due to insurance problems with a
lease agreement between Travis County
and the Lower Colorado River Authori-
ty (LCRA), planned park im-
provements and new fee charges for
Mansfield Dam Recreation Area have
been delayed. However, both the
LCRA and the county have agreed in
concept to new wording in the lease, ac-
cording to county officials.
Signed by county officials in March
of this year but unsigned by LCRA of-
ficials, the lease agreement gives Travis
County complete authority over the
operation of LCRA-owned parks, in-
cluding Mansfield Dam, Pace Bend,
Hippie Hollow, Windy Point and
Cypress Creek. The agreement enables
the LCRA to retain its title to these
parks, and also enables the county to
charge fees for entrance into Mansfield
Dam Recreation Area. No fees are cur-
rently being charged at the dam, but the
new proposal is to charge $2 per vehicle
and to limit use of the park to the day.
These new fees and improvements to
the park have been delayed because the
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By DIANE LEE
View Staff
Faculty members at Lake Travis
High School and adults in the Lake
Travis community are working with
students coping with the death of Ben
Perkins, the 1986 valedictorian at Lake
Travis High School. Charles Benjamin
Perkins Jr., the 18-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles B. Perkins of
Hamilton Pool Road, was killed in a
head-on collision Sunday morning.
Some 300 students were called Sun-
day afternoon and told of the youth’s
death, and more calls were made Mon-
day, according to Dr. George Cury,
principal of the high school. He said he
was meeting with all the class officers
Tuesday morning before the Tuesday
afternoon funeral.
Cury said the death had come as a
shock to the students. "It’s a difficult
concept for kids to handle. Most of
them believe that if you do good, you’ll
live a long life. And here is the person
who did the most good in their eyes,
who epitomized goodness, and he was
taken. They’re having a hard"Time ac-
cepting it.”
To help them work it through. Cury
is mobilizing teachers and other adults
to counsel with the students this sum-
mer. "Shock immobilizes the body for
a while after something like this, and it
allowed us time to organize (a
response),” Cury said.
wide pool, formed thousands of years
ago when the dome covering an
underground river collapsed. The new
chlorination system will bring the water
to acceptable health standards and aid
in the control of algae, the county com-
missioner said. Low flow rates along
Hamilton Creek and low turnover
within the pool had caused water
samples to test high in coliform
bacteria, Reed's office reported The
(See POOL Page 16)
BEN PERKINS
...traffic fatality
He spoke highly of Perkins. "In
Ben’s eyes, there was good in
everybody. It’s not that he was naive; it
was that Ben himself was good, and he
brought the good out in the people
around him.”
Cury said Perkins was the first stu-
dent he met when he came to Lake
(See PERKINS Page 16)
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damage).
"The leases as they existed required
the county to provide insurance,” said
David Escamilla, attorney for Travis
County, adding that "we didn’t want to
be held liable.” Escamilla said that
counties, as "arms of the state,” are
(See PARK Page 16)
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Lee, Diane. Lake Travis View (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 23, 1986, newspaper, July 23, 1986; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1297786/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting City of Lakeway.