AUSTIN (KXAN) -- It's been nearly a year since the city of Austin's Watershed Protection Department roped off a part of the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail.

"If you may not be aware or weren't aware of what we were doing here, it's pretty startling seeing the state of things right now, but when we are finished, we're aiming for the end of this year, it's going to look beautiful," said Sean Friend with Austin Watershed Protection.

Right now walkers and runners along the trail nearest Barton Springs Road and Zilker Park are exposed to rocks and heavy machinery work being used to repair a section of the Barton Creek Streambank. The goal is to turn this large piece of black sand into a large limestone block wall. The redo of the bank wall is to fix the erosion caused from heavy rains

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