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The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (AgriLife Extension) through the Departments of Soil and Crop Sciences (SCSC) and Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAEN) and the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) conducted 14 well owner...
2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2024-11-22 |
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Shale gas has emerged as one of the leading energy developments in the United States. Production has risen from roughly 0.9 trillion cubic feet (TCF) in 2006 to 4.8 TCF in 2010. Shale gas now encompasses 23% of U.S. natural gas production and is...
2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2024-11-22 |
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The Arroyo Colorado (AC) is an ancient channel of the Rio Grande and is approximately 90 miles long. The headwaters of the AC begins at the Anzalduas Diversion Dam in Mission, TX and flows eastward through southern Hidalgo County, into Cameron...
2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2024-11-22 |
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Giant salvinia, a highly invasive aquatic fern native to South America, poses a serious threat to Texas’ waters and has done so since its discovery in the state in the 1990s. If left unmanaged, giant salvinia can cause a multitude of impacts...
2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2024-11-22 |
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2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2024-11-22 |
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2014-12-22
2014-12-22 2013-12-01 |
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A popular approach currently applied in the development of Watershed Protection Plans (WPP) and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) is to identify whether point or non-point sources are the primary pollutant contributors in a water body. The...
2016-09-26
2016-09-26 2012-12-01 |
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The Spatially Explicit Load Enrichment Calculation Tool (SELECT) methodology developed by Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department and Spatial Sciences Laboratory at Texas A&M University was used to independently characterize potential...
2016-09-26
2016-09-26 2012-12-01 |
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The Navasota River watershed is located in East-Central Texas in the Brazos River basin. Lake Limestone impounds the River causing a hydrological divide in the watershed. The majority of the watershed is rural and urbanization is largely confined...
2020-04-03
2020-04-03 2017-07-01 |
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Excess water from various landscape activities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are drained through the Arroyo Colorado eventually emptying into the lower Laguna Madre. The Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge and several county and city parks...
2020-09-02
2020-09-02 2012-06-05 |
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Water is used for various purposes, whether it is for drinking, swimming, fishing, irrigating or any other reason. To meet the needs of all these uses, the state is required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act to set standards and put forth...
2020-09-02
2020-09-02 2012-06-12 |
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According to the 2010 Texas Integrated Report, there are 303 bacterially impaired waterbodies in Texas. Nonpoint sources (NPS) of pollution greatly affect water quality. Identifying and assessing sources of fecal pollution is a key component in...
2020-09-02
2020-09-02 2012-02-24 |
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There are 273 bacterially impaired water bodies in Texas. Identifying and assessing sources of these bacteria — E. coli, Enterococcus, fecal coliforms — is critical to properly determining risk to water recreation, developing effective watershed...
2020-09-02
2020-09-02 2012-02-24 |
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Watershed planning remains a high priority to address the more than 568 impaired water body segments in Texas. To ensure that watershed protection efforts are adequately planned, coordinated and implemented, proper training of watershed...
2020-09-22
2020-09-22 2024-11-22 |
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Urban-municipal use is the second largest category of water use in Texas. Within this use category, lawn and landscape water use is a significant, but largely unmeasured, component. Landscapes are important components of urban environments and...
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2024-11-22 |
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Texas has reached a crossroads in the management of its water resources. Water demand in the state continues to grow while the opportunity to develop new supplies continues to shrink. Urban growth, industrial and tourism development, environmental...
2020-10-27
2020-10-27 1994-11-01 |
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A portion of this study was funded by Texas Cooperative Extension through the Rio Grande Basin Initiative administered by the Texas Water Resources Institute of the Texas A&M University System with funds provided through a grant from Cooperative...
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2011-04-01 |
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This report summarizes seepage loss tests conducted in Cameron County Irrigation District No. 2 (CCID2) on five canal segments
located as shown on the right.
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2011-04-01 |
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This report summarizes the results of seepage loss rate tests conducted in La Feria Irrigation District Cameron County Irrigation District No. 3 (La Feria). These tests were conducted during April 9 - 11, 2003 on Canal 6.0.
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2011-04-01 |
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Maps depicting the spatial variation of hydrological drought severity for Texas are presented in this report. The return periods chosen are 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years for drought durations of 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24 and 36 months, respectively. The...
2020-10-16
2020-10-16 2013-02-01 |
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AVSWAT-2000 (version 1.0) (Di Luzio et al., 2002) is an ArcView extension and a graphical user interface for the SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model (Arnold et al., 1998). SWAT is a river basin, or watershed, scale model developed to...
2020-10-28
2020-10-28 2024-11-22 |
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With only a few exceptions, irrigation districts in the Texas border region have old, outdated database systems that need to be replaced. These old databases are costly to maintain, make accessing and analyzing data difficult, and limit a...
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2011-04-01 |
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The Bureau of Reclamation requested
recommendations on flow rates and capacity
requirements of new farm turnouts in Cameron
County Irrigation District No. 2.
These outlets are being designed as part of a
rehabilitation project which is replacing...
2020-10-30
2020-10-30 2011-04-01 |
