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• Designate zones around the river in which fines collected for Code Citations for "D" Offenses are designated for river management. Concentrating Access in Preferred Locations This strategy involves a combination of developing well- designed swimmer, tuber, boater, and fishing access points at desired, relatively sustainable locations while creating physical barriers to prevent access at less desirable locations. Barriers could include thick vegetation and /or fencing to prevent users from accessing the river in unlimited locations. Designated access points could be hardened to minimize erosion and sedimentation (like the large rocks at Rio Vista Falls). US Army Corps of Engineers Sec. 206 funding may cover the cost of moving trails away from the river's edge. • Construct access points and restrict continuous access (identify places with greatest benefits from restoration). Providing Increased Trash Collection, Recycling, and Encourage Restroom Use One strategy to improving the visitor's experience along with minimizing visitor impacts involves encouraging visitors to use restrooms instead of the river and banks and improving trash management. Adding recycling collection bins will garner good public relations and discourage littering. Bin design should minimize blown trash, and frequent collection on high -use days will assure there's room inside bins and avoid overflowing conditions. • Add recycling collecting bins to riverside parks. • Provide visitors information on existing restroom locations. Dispersing Users with New River Access & New Recreation Opportunities In the field of recreation, providing new opportunities takes some of the pressure off existing, overused areas. Downstream access in San Marcos (east of 1 -35) is currently under - developed with adequate facilities and public parkland and is an area identified by community input for more river access. Promoting other opportunities is one way to attract some users away from the highly impacted sites, however, over time, with population increases, the new sites may also become congested and cause an even greater area of the river to experience degradation from use. This strategy could also involve providing attractive recreation opportunities at locations located sustainably away from the river and river bank. • Study the area downstream of IH 35 to identify new river access park sites that would not harm fountain darter and wild rice habitat. • Partner with Texas Parks and Wildlife to improve and market Thompson's Island with additional picnicking and programmed family and youth camping. • Add well- designed trails set back from the riparian area with intermittently placed river viewing facilities and added vegetation to discourage trampling the river's edge. • Increase group picnicking areas away from the river (identify places). Dispersing Users by Marketing Less -used Opportunities This strategy implies that there are other similarly desirable opportunities for river recreation that would satisfy the same users who are heavily impacting high use, sensitive areas and that other areas may be less sensitive sites. However, as less -used sites get more used, visitor impacts go with them. Similar to the idea of dispersing users with new or less used river access sites is a related strategy is to market low -use days (weekdays, off -peak season). • Market off -peak days through package deals for out -of -town visitors. • Use University programmed activities to promote non -river activities on peak days. 113