Thursday, April 22, 2021
The San Marcos City Council voted to approve an amendment to the Community Development Block Grant-Mitigation Action Plan to designate projects and allocate funding.
The funding was awarded in response to the 2015 Memorial Day Weekend Floods and is intended to support projects that will reduce the risk of loss of life and damage to property in the future, prioritizing lower income areas while addressing the most impacted areas from the 2015 floods.
Fourteen million dollars will be allocated to the Blanco Riverine Regional Flood Mitigation project, providing a berm and relief channel to lessen the risk of flooding in southwest San Marcos from the Blanco River.
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Cult classic Piranha is a great Texas-made horror movie shot at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos, Texas
Jim Kiest, Staff writer
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Like quicksand pits or cobras poised to strike, piranha attacks are one of those exotic dangers that are much more familiar from the movies than real life. Take a dip in the wrong South American river or displease the wrong Bond villain, and some poor sap disappears in a froth of roiling water, blood and screams.
The nasty little biters came mighty close to home, though, in “Piranha,” a 1978 horror movie that was one of several low-budget man vs. beast movies such as “Orca” and “Grizzly” that surfaced in the wake of “Jaws.” Scenes from the movie were shot along the Guadalupe River in Seguin, at Lake Austin and in Aquarena Springs, the San Marcos theme park that closed in 1994.
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