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Documents reveal decades-old plans to fill caves in Brushy Creek neighborhood

Documents reveal there were plans to fill caves near Cambria Drive decades ago.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas — Crews returned to work Wednesday to fill a cave in Williamson County’s Brushy Creek neighborhood.

Work had temporarily stopped after a new chamber was found earlier this month.

The Cambria Drive Cave, located at the intersection of Cambria Drive and Ephraim Road, has five chambers and is about 200 feet long. It currently sits beneath three homes.

Also on Wednesday, KVUE obtained documents from the Brushy Creek Municipal Utility District revealing two other caves in the area that were supposed to be filled decades ago.

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KVUE found an invoice from 1986, when portions of Brushy Creek were being built.

It has instructions to backfill and collapse two caves. Those two caves are the Cambria Drive Cave and the Laona Cove Cave.

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Laona Cove is a street about 100 feet away from the Cambria Drive Cave entrance.

However, the “Cambria Drive Cave” documented is not the same one that is currently open, according to the Brushy Creek MUD.

According to a letter to the developer from the Texas Water Commission (the former name for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality), the “Cambria Drive Cave” discovered back in 1986 is right next to the currently open Cambria Drive Cave.

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"We're still doing some research to make sure we don't have any other documents,” said Mike Petter, general manager of the Brushy Creek Municipal Utility District. “The current documents that we have are only direction about how to fill in the caves. They don't identify the size of the caves.”

Wilson Development Corporation, the developer for this neighborhood, does not exist anymore.

KVUE contacted the former president for an explanation and whether in fact these caves were filled, but we have not received a call back.

The engineering consultants and contractors named in the contract change order are no longer around either.

KVUE has left messages with a former employee.

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