Sadly, this lovely municipal pool on the edge of Rooney Park https://www.yelp.com/biz/rooney-park-fort-stockton has been closed for repairs since February 2018 and is not available for public use. Information is scarce online via City of Fort Stockton and Pecos County, but a Local 2 / Fox 24 news report from around that time suggests that repairs will be ongoing through the end of 2018. http://www.yourbasin.com/news/fort-stockton-water-carnival-looking-at-possible-cancellation/949041036 When it's actually open, it's pretty grand, so I'll update my review when it becomes accessible again. The pool is located near the historic fort, which makes sense, as the fort was constructed to take advantage of the once abundent fresh water source. The springs stopped flowing in the 1950s when big tract landowners began pumping groundwater to such a degree that no more could flow from the aquifer to the surface. The people sued, since agriculture and other public interests were being harmed, but the landowners won and groundwater resources in Texas have been at risk ever since. More about that situation is detailed in this 2005 essay from Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine https://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2005/jul/ed_2/ and this report from Texas Standard http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/what-happened-to-comanche-springs/. read more

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