NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas -- The New Braunfels City Council on Thursday night heard from an advisory committee on ways to limit alcohol use on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers.

The committee proposed that open containers of alcohol would be banned at Cypress Bend Park, Prince Solms, Hinman Island and the last tuber's exit.

The panel also suggested that fencing be erected at Hinman Island and Prince Solms so that law enforcement authorities could monitor alcohol use by tubers.

Another recommendation proposed would limit the size of coolers on the Guadalupe River to a container that hold a maximum of a six pack.

Carola Davis, a New Braunfels resident, applauded the recommendations made the advisory committee.

"Because the Legislature would have to give the city of New Braunfels the authority to ban alcohol, which is what the law enforcement said we needed, we would have to wait a long time to accomplish that," Davis said. "The only way, then, is to limit."

But James Reno, a New Braunfels resident, said that the council doesn't have any business taking up such matters.

"First of all, they're trying to legislate things that they don't have the jurisdiction to legislate," Reno said. "They can't tell you what to take on the river."

City Council did not take action on the proposals and it wasn't immediately known when a vote would be taken.