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Despite a very strongly worded letter about the Waller Creek Tunnel’s “defective” construction, KUT reports the project might not be a complete disaster after all. Mose Buchele reported on Friday that “staff at Austin’s Watershed Protection Department remain confident that the tunnel will still lift 28 acres of downtown real estate out of the 100-year floodplain.” Read more on their site, here.

Elizabeth Pagano is the editor of the Austin Monitor.