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Reservoir storage reduces fluctuation in streamflow salinity, yet increases outflow salinity
because of water evaporation. These processes are highly relevant to developing water
management strategy, yet the method to predict outflow salinity has...
2010-08-23
2010-08-23 2010-08-23 |
The Education Program for Improved Water Quality in Copano Bay is funded through a Clean Water Act ?319(h) Nonpoint Source Grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (TSSWCB...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2024-11-22 |
This report fulfills the deliverables required by the cooperative agreement between the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and Texas AgriLife Research (TAES/03-PL-02: Modification No.
3) on behalf of the Paso del Norte Watershed Council. Tasks...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2024-11-22 |
This report fulfills the deliverables required by the cooperative agreement between the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers and Texas AgriLife Research (TAES/03-PL-02: Modification No.
3) on behalf of the Paso del Norte Watershed Council. Tasks...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2024-11-22 |
This report fulfills the deliverables required by the cooperative agreement between the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES/03-PL-
02: Modification No. 3) on behalf of the Paso del Norte Watershed Council....
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2024-11-22 |
The Irrigation Training Program, funded by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) through an Agricultural
Water Conservation Grant, began in 2006. Administered by the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI), the Texas
State Soil and Water...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2010-02-01 |
A smart controller testing facility was established by the Irrigation Technology Center at Texas
A&M University in College Station in 2008. A two-year testing program was initiated in order to
evaluate smart controller testing methodology needed...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2010-04-01 |
Numerous gasification experiments were conducted and proved that with proper moisture content (usually near 10%) animal manure can be gasified using the TAMU fluidized bed gasifier. In summary the following has been established.
? The heating...
2011-01-04
2011-01-04 2010-06-01 |
As the U.S. population continues to increase, the priority on planning for future water quantity
and quality becomes more important. Historically, many municipalities have primarily relied
upon surface water as their major source of drinking...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-07-01 |
In the publication prepared in 2006 with
the above title (TWRI. TR-287), we described
ways to diagnose salt problems which affect
irrigated production of pecans. We also discussed
the concepts of minimizing soil salinization, and
ways to lower...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-07-01 |
Proper training of watershed coordinators and water professionals is needed to ensure that watershed protection
efforts are adequately planned, coordinated and implemented. To provide this training, the Texas Watershed
Planning Short Course was...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-08-01 |
The overall goal for this project was to provide a mechanism to educate local stakeholders about
water quality issues that affect Lake Granbury. This project provided an assessment of existing
and potential water quality threats related to...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-09-01 |
A team of Texas AgriLife Research, Baylor University and University of Texas at
Arlington researchers studied the biology and ecology of Prymnesium parvum (golden
algae) in Texas lakes using a three-fold approach that involved system-wide...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-10-01 |
Texas High Plains Evapotranspiration (TXHPET) network personnel continued to operate and maintain the network of 15 to 18 weather stations to provide timely weather and evapotranspiration (ET) data in support of related research and extension...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-09-01 |
According to the 2008 Water Quality Inventory and 303(d) List, 291 of the 516 impairments (i.e. 56%)
were the result of excessive bacteria. Modeling and bacteria source tracking has identified grazing cattle
as a source of this bacterial...
2011-01-07
2011-01-07 2010-12-01 |
Since 2001, the Efficient Irrigation for Water Conservation in the Rio Grande Basin Federal Initiative?
known as the Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI)?has saved more than 5 million acre-feet of water.
Researchers, Extension specialists, and...
2011-06-21
2011-06-21 2011-06-21 |
This study involves four of the twelve major river basins of the state of Texas and is essentially a proposal to divert water from the Red River into the trinity, Neches and Sabine River Basins. When first considered, it appears to be a rather...
2011-06-29
2011-06-29 1967-05-01 |
This study involves four of the twelve major river basins of the state of Texas and is essentially a proposal to divert water from the Red River into the Trinity, Neches and Sabine River Basins. When first considered, it appears to be a rather...
2011-06-29
2011-06-29 1966-01-01 |
The report by the Committee on Surface Water Hydrology of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2) has pointed out that one of the areas in hydrology lacking adequate research is the investigation of runoff from small areas. As indicated...
2011-06-29
2011-06-29 1966-05-01 |
Twenty-two shallow, reversed, seismic refraction profiles were conducted in the Brazos River floodplain to test the feasibility of using seismic methods to provide hydrogeologic information in this province. The specific objectives were to map the...
2011-06-30
2011-06-30 1966-07-01 |
This report is the result of a growing concern about the rate at which development of the water resources of Texas is outstripping biological and ecological knowledge of the aquatic environments concerned.
Most Texas streams are already much...
2011-06-30
2011-06-30 1966-11-01 |
Clean fresh water is the most precious natural resource available to mankind. People must have water for personal, municipal, industrial and recreational use. At the present time, most of the available fresh water in the United States is used in...
2011-06-30
2011-06-30 1966-12-01 |
Techniques for streamflow forecasting are developed and tested for the Little Washita River in Oklahoma. The basic input for streamflow forecasts is rainfall. the rainfall amounts may be obtained from several sources; however, this study is...
2011-06-30
2011-06-30 1967-08-01 |