What do these two pictures have in common?

It’s not just that they’re both located in South Austin, although at a first glance that seems like the only similarity. The beautiful wet weather creek was made out of limestone harvested from the construction site.

When building brand new projects or remodeling an older house, we are always conscientious of conserving and reusing resources. If a home owner wants a new floor, their existing hardwood isn’t put to waste. Instead, we offer the older floors to someone who may be doing their own big project – and that way as little as possible goes to waste.

This limestone is no different. Seeing the new apartments going up on South Lamar, I saw an excellent opportunity to get some hand picked limestone for my rainwater-collecting wet weather creek. After asking permission to take away some of the rock (remember kids – reusing is not the same as stealing!)

The result? Perfect sizes of rock. Water for the garden. Beautifully re-purposed materials. That sounds like a triple win to us!  Now this wet weather creek gives roof rainwater a place to go, both irrigating plants efficiently and preventing erosion of the mulch.

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