We saw that this tiny move had some effect. Now it's time to give New Braunfels back to Jesus completely. They need to ban all beer and whiskey from the river and the entire city of New Braunfels. Anyone caught with even a teaspoon full should be thrown in jail for a long, long time. This will not only clean up the river, but it will keep the trash from visiting and causing trouble. Such a move would attract Christian families to the river who will make up for all the lost tourist money. All those businesses that sell beer along the river need to be shut down for good and their owners and employees locked up in the penitentiary for promoting depravity and sin. New Braunfels will prosper when it is given over to Jesus and his Christians. The devil's people are of no use to New Braunfels anymore. Hopefully, the river will be suitable for Baptisms soon.

Yep I'm sure it's working. It worked so well me and everyone I know spent our money else where. I have no problem cleaning up after myself after all my parents taught me to do that when I was little. What I have a problem with is the way they went about it. Why not have the tube outfitters attach a laundry mesh net to the side of the tube to hold your cans then at the end they can process the cans and recycle them to cover their costs and even make a bit of cash. Keep the officers on the river and fine the heck out of people you catch littering that way everyone comes out ahead. I guess this approach makes to much damn sense. Yep enjoy your bans I'll exercise my right to patronize establishments that welcome me and my business.

I personally went to the Comal more this year than I have in years past, and I found it much more enjoyable this year than in years past. I still took my drink (in a non-disposable container) and we still had a great time with plenty of other people on the river. Because of the drought last year and the ridiculous number of people floating the Comal las year compared to normal, I think it's a skewed view if you just compare this year's numbers (both revenue by the businesses and trash clean up) to last. I'd be interested to hear the difference between this year's revenue/trash to an AVERAGE year. Nonetheless, I like the can ban, the cleaner river, and smaller more manageable crowds.

It's a shame that New Braunfels had to resort to this drastic measure but people usually do these things to themselves. If they had just cleaned up after themselves instead of leaving it all behind for someone else to cleanup, then New Braunfels would not have had to introduce the can-ban. Then the peoples whine about the draconian government when the have only themselves to blame.

WOAI needs to look at the excellent reporting by the local paper "NB Citizen" on the faked before and after trash numbers. Mike Morrison may be able to fool some people - but not everyone finds him believable. City business tax revenue is down substantially, hard hit were the river related businesses. The resulting lawsuits (and property tax increases) will have the City of New Braunfels paying a very dear price for Mike Morrison's foolishness. There appears to be a considerable amount of small town deal making and fraud by Mike Morrison and friends.

Of course there's no trash in the river. You need to have people floating on it first. The can ban is working like a cure that kills the patient. This city council is brain dead.