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The Attoyac Bayou is a rural East Texas water body that drains a watershed that encompasses many East Texas mainstays: agricultural, natural resource production in the form of forest products, oil and gas, abundant wildlife and the rural residents...
2020-11-06
2020-11-06 2014-07-01 |
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The “Carters Creek Total Maximum Daily Load Implementation” project was developed to provide additional information to watershed stakeholders regarding the spatial and temporal distribution of E. coli concentrations in water across the watershed...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2016-02-01 |
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The Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley is a large agricultural region with limited water resources. With rapid
expansion in population and industrial growth, there is an increasing competition for water, particularly
in times of drought or due to under...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-09-01 |
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The Arroyo Colorado Watershed is 706 square miles and runs from McAllen to the Lower Laguna Madre. The water body is impaired for dissolved oxygen, bacteria and legacy pollutants. In 2007, local stakeholders developed and published A Watershed...
2020-11-11
2020-11-11 2024-04-27 |
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WRAP is a generalized river/reservoir system simulation model providing flexible capabilities for analyzing water resources development, management, control, allocation, and use. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Water...
2020-11-03
2020-11-03 2011-12-01 |
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This report summarizes our evaluation of the potential of Landsat satellite multi-spectral land
cover imagery for GIS-based urbanization analysis in irrigation districts. Three image scenes of
ETM+ (2003) and TM (1993) multi-spectral image data...
2020-11-03
2020-11-03 2011-04-01 |
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This document is the training booklet used in the Urban Stream Processes and Restoration Program workshops with slideshow presentations from the course instructors and more.
2020-12-04
2020-12-04 2019-09-01 |
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Communication is the cornerstone of all effective efforts, and water quality projects are no exception. Open and effective lines of communication were established through this project with the purpose of conveying project findings, plans for...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2016-01-01 |
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A smart controller testing facility was established at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2008 in order to evaluate their performance from an “end-user” point of view. The “end-user” is considered to be the landscape or irrigation...
2020-11-04
2020-11-04 2014-11-01 |
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Public drinking water supplies are monitored through requirements of the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act, but private well owners are responsible for monitoring the quality of their wells and are frequently at greater risk for exposure to compromised...
2020-11-11
2020-11-11 2024-04-27 |
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ZEROS (Zero-emission Energy Recycling Oxidation System) is an innovative “oxy-fuel” technology that uses pure oxygen to completely oxidize a variety of organic/hydrocarbon fuels with no air or water emissions and with complete sequestration of...
2020-11-03
2020-11-03 2011-04-01 |
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Vegetated Treatment Areas (or VTAs) are composed of perennial grasses used to improve runoff water quality associated with livestock, poultry, and other agricultural operations. 70-75% of swine operations nationwide are considered ‘small’ with...
2020-11-12
2020-11-12 2017-03-01 |
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This project was initiated to provide updated water quality data for Arenosa Creek in order to determine the persistence of the bacterial impairment of the watershed, while also informing decision makers on potential remedial actions. Indicator...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-10-01 |
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The State of Texas has more than 191,000 miles of rivers and streams that comprise corridors of great economic, social, cultural, and environmental value. Riparian degradation is a major threat to water quality, in-stream habitat, terrestrial...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-09-01 |
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The focus of Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) Project 10-11, “Implementing Educational Components of the Arroyo Colorado WPP Focused on Agricultural NPS Pollution”, was to continue efforts to alleviate impairments in the...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2014-10-01 |
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Through the Building Partnerships for Cooperative Conservation in the Trinity River Basin
project, funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with Clean Water Act (CWA)
§319(h) funds through the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation...
2020-11-04
2020-11-04 2014-09-01 |
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With increasing population and global economic growth, the pressure on natural resources becomes more intense. Water is a prime example of increasing demand among many users, including environmental priorities. A typical approach for increasing...
2020-12-04
2020-12-04 2015-02-01 |
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The Carters Creek watershed is a tributary of the Navasota River and covers approximately 56.9 square miles in Brazos County. Of this area, 57% is urbanized (Figure 1) through development associated with the cities of Bryan and College Station....
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2016-01-01 |
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Developing a clearer understanding of the spatial and temporal variability in E. coli concentrations monitored throughout the watershed and establishing a clear baseline of current E. coli loads at a sub-watershed scale were the goals for...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2016-01-01 |
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There is much ado about the potential for applications of UAVs to take precision agriculture to the next level. The economic value of UAVs to agriculture has been broadly touted with little basis for the estimates. This paper is an attempt to...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-06-01 |
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The world population is growing rapidly, and the amount of arable land is decreasing. This raises the issue of how to feed the 2050 projected population of nine billion people. Another issue is the presence of “food deserts.” Food deserts are...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-12-01 |
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This booklet is used in the Texas Riparian and Stream Ecosystem Trainings to accompany presentations by the course instructors, provide educational content and more.
2020-12-04
2020-12-04 2019-10-01 |
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Conservation coordinators and managers often seek recommendations for best management practices (BMPs) that
produce the greatest amount of water savings at the least cost. In practice, it is difficult to create a hierarchy of BMPs
based on cost...
2020-11-11
2020-11-11 2015-12-01 |
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On-Site Septic Facilities, also known as septic systems, are systems designed to treat and dispose of wastewater effluent on the same property that produces the wastewater, hence the term “on-site.” When septic systems begin to fail, not only do...
2020-11-12
2020-11-12 2019-11-01 |
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Public and private wells that use alluvial aquifers as a drinking water source have an increased risk of contamination from pathogens. This reconnaissance study, conducted by the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) and subcontractors, focused...
2020-12-07
2020-12-07 2015-07-01 |
