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Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study

Description: The report discuses the Medina Count-D'Hanis Flood Protection Study, which evaluates the flooding problems in the D'Hanis area within Medina County and develop cost effective flood reduction alternatives considering public safety and welfare. (Ex Summ I).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board

Description: Final report of the Texas Desal Project, "a science-based forum where environmental and permitting issues associated with the construction and operation of a full-scale seawater desalination facility may be identified and solutions integrated into the design process" (p. 1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: NRS Consulting Engineers, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Reuse Research Agenda

Description: This report identifies and prioritizes water reuse research topics to advance water reuse in Texas.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake

Description: This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Upland Game Bird Strategic Plan: A Five Year Roadmap (2011-2015)

Description: This report "addresses the conservation needs of two of three subspecies of wild turkey, four species of quail, lesser prairie-chicken, pheasant and chachalaca within Texas." (p. 6).
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Small Game Program.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration Initiative 2010

Description: This report's "objectives are to use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to; assess current rates and sources of sediment and nutrient loading of twelve major water supply reservoirs in ten watersheds of the Upper Trinity River Basin, to predict the effects of anticipated future urbanization, and to consider possible conservation practices that could decrease sediment and nutrient loading of these reservoirs" (p. ii).
Date: 2010
Creator: Wang, Xiuying; White, Michael; Lee, Taesoo; Tuppad, Pushpa; Srinivasan, Raghavan; Jones, Allan et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Towards development of a nutrient budget for the Trinity-San Jacinto Estuary

Description: "The Galveston Bay Program identified an "examination of the impacts of freshwater inflow and Bay circulation" as priority areas in its comprehensive conservation management action plan for 2001-2005. Specifically to ensure beneficial freshwater inflow necessary for a salinity, nutrient and sediment loading regime adequate to maintain the productivity of economically important and ecologically characteristic species in Trinity-San Jacinto Estuary." (p. 6).
Date: July 2010
Creator: Quigg, Antonietta Salvatrice
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Economic Impacts of Groundwater Management Standards : In the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District of Texas

Description: "The objective of this study was to conduct an economic analysis of how the 50/50 management standard would impact irrigated producers in the region and the overall agricultural economy. Specifically this analysis was conducted on three levels: county, hydro-logic area, and representative farm. The study focused on the dynamic changes in agricultural production, saturated thickness, farm revenue, and the capacity to irrigate. A socioeconomic model was subsequently used to estimate changes in th… more
Date: February 28, 2012
Creator: Weinheimer, Justin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program

Description: This report accounts for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 's (TCEQ) implementation and enforcement authority for the drinking water program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Macrobenthos Productivity in the Guadalupe Estuary

Description: This report provides information about "inflow studies focused on the major bay systems of the Texas coast....The data collected will help assess ecosystem health as it relates to change in freshwater inflow by assessing benthic habitat health, and benthic productivity." (p. 2).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Montagna, Paul A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Still Creek Flood Protection Study

Description: "The City of Bryan (City) has contracted Freese and Nichols, Inc. (FNI) to perform a detailed study of existing flooding issues within the Still Creek watershed...This report provides a summary of FNI's study methodologies, results, and recommendations for mitigating each flooding hazard." (p. 3-4).
Date: February 2012
Creator: Hubley, Scott K. & Johnston, J. Garrett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay

Description: Report discussing a recent application of the UTBEST3D (University of Texas Bay and Estuary 3D) simulator which uses the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method defined on unstructured prismatic meshes. The project aimed to produce a calibrated model of Corpus Christi Bay and compared the simulated results to real-world data to test the accuracy of the simulator.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Dawson, Clinton N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Aerial Assessment of Aquatic and Riparian Habitat in the Brazos River and Blanco River, Texas

Description: This report's purpose is "to evaluate the use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UVA) to acquire high resolution multispectral aerial imagery from Texas rivers supporting natural resource management objectives" (p. 2).
Date: May 6, 2012
Creator: Hardy, Thomas B.; Kollaus, Kristy; Tolman, Kristina; Heard, Thomas & Tennant, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Upflow Calcite Contractor Study

Description: This document reports "four experiments [that] were conducted in four phases to determine design criteria for reverse osmosis permeate stabilization. The first three phases of experiments involved varying one of three design parameters (calcite particle size, calcite purity, and EBCT) and holding for these parameters to validate the design criteria values developed using the results of the first three experiments." (p. 3).
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, Habitat Conservation Plan, Final Report, Volume 1

Description: First part of a report evaluating the environmental impacts of adopting a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) prepared by the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP) that would permit incidental take of endangered species during other lawful activities, while attempting to minimize or mitigate expected impacts. This volume contains the executive summary and chapters describing the purpose and need for the action, alternatives, the affected environment, environmental consequences, a… more
Date: June 2012
Creator: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Assessment of Groundwater Modeling Approaches for Brackish Aquifers : Final Report

Description: Final report of a study assessing groundwater modeling methods for brackish aquifers. The study included a literature review to assess current brackish water applications, a high-level summary of the hydrogeologic features of brackish aquifers in Texas, and the development of method for assessing brackish groundwater resources.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Deeds, Neil Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Brazos River Basin and Bay Expert Science Team Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report

Description: This report from the Brazos River Basin and Associated Bay and Estuary System Science Team (Brazos BBEST) is part of Texas Legislature Senate Bill 3 that created a process to set environmental flow standards for river basin and bay systems in Texas. This report gives recommendations for an environmental flow regime for the Brazos Basin and associated areas." (p. 1-1).
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry

Description: This report "documents results for the four tasks described in the scope of work Contract #904830939: 1) identify major mining operations and analyze water-use patterns, 2) estimate current water use withdrawal and consumption, 3) develop long term water-demand projections at the county level, and 4)report the findings of the study and prepare an electronic database....The report is divided into several sections. In each of them, we successively address oil and gas, coal, aggregates, and other … more
Date: June 2011
Creator: Nicot, Jean-Philippe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Final: Groundwater Availability Model Report for the Rustler Aquifer

Description: This report documents the development of a three-dimensional groundwater model for the Rustler Aquifer.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ewing, John E.; Kelley, Van A.; Jones, Toya L.; Yan, Tingting; Singh, Abhishek; Powers, Dennis W. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Ground Water Recharge Model : Calibration and Validation for Remotely-Sensed Dual Coefficient (RDC) GMA8 ET Estimation

Description: This report provides information on a groundwater recharge (GWr) model for a 50-year period, 1960 to 1009, that was developed for Texas Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA8) through solving a simple water balance that yielded GWr as a residual from calibrated inputs.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Kirk, Alexandra; Groeneveld, David; Barz, Dave; Herring, Koanna & Murray, Scott
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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