Browsing by Author "Wagner, K."
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Smith, C.; Wagner, K.; Warrick, L. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012)The 2012 Bacterial Source Tracking - State of the Science Conference was held February 28-29 at the T Bar M Resort and Conference Center in New Braunfels, Texas. Academia involved in BST analysis; state, federal, and ...
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Gregory, L.; Brown, M.; Skow, K.; Engling, A.; Wagner, K.; Berthold, A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)The State of Texas currently contains 568 water bodies considered impaired due to excessive pollutant loading. Of these, approximately 48% are impaired due to elevated levels of fecal indicator bacteria from animals, birds ...
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Martin, E.; Gentry, T.; Gregory, L.; Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)The Attoyac Bayou, a sub-watershed within the Upper Neches River Watershed, extends approximately 82 miles through Rusk, Nacogdoches, San Augustine and Shelby counties before emptying into Sam Rayburn Reservoir. With several ...
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Boitnott, N.; Castilaw, A.; Gregory, L.; Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)The Attoyac Bayou watershed is one of many rural watersheds included in the Texas Water Quality Inventory and 303(d) List as an impaired water body due to excessive E. coli levels. In many cases the assessed data in these ...
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Schwab,S.; McBroom, M; Gregory, L.; Blumenthal, B; Wagner, K.; Sims, B (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014-05)
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Gregory, L.; Brown, M.; Hein, K.; Skow, K.; Engling, A.; Wagner, K.; Berthold, A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)In the 2012 Texas Integrated Report and 303(d) List, approximately 48% of the 568 impaired water bodies were caused by high bacteria levels. Once a water body has been listed, the Clean Water Act requires action to be ...
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Wagner, K.; Redmon, L.; Peterson, J. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013)The Texas Water Resources Institute, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, and Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board worked with the livestock industry, natural resource agencies, soil and water conservation ...
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Berthold, A.; Moench, E.; Wagner, K.; Paschal, J. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-05-17)The Copano Bay watershed covers approximately 1.4 million acres encompassing portions of Karnes, Bee, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio and Aransas counties. Copano Bay and its main tributaries, the Mission and Aransas rivers, ...
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Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-09-12)Irrigation is critical to our food production and food security and is a vital component of Texas’ productive agricultural economy. Texas ranks third in the United States in both agricultural acres irrigated and ...
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Wagner, K.; Pampell, R.; Harmel, R.D. (2017-03)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 ...
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Wagner, K.; Brown, M.; Gregory, L.; Harmel, D.; Coufal, C.; Gentry, T. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013-12)
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Wagner, K.; Redmon, L.; Gentry, T.; Harmel, D.; Jones, C. A. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-10)Bacteria levels are the number one cause of water quality impairment in Texas. Several recent Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) in Texas, such as those implemented in the Peach Creek and Leon River watersheds, have identified ...
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Wagner, K.; Redmon, L.; Gentry, T.; Clary, C. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013-01)According to the 2008 Texas Water Quality Inventory and 303(d) List, recreation is impaired in 274 waterbody segments and oyster harvest is impaired in another 21 due to bacteria. One of the primary strategies for reducing ...
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Wagner, K.; Harmel, D.; Higgs, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013)Federal law requires all animal feeding operations to manage manures and wastewater by-products in a manner that is protective of waters of the U.S. As a result, the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB) ...
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Boellstorff, D.; Gholson, D.; Kalisek, D.; Smith, J.; Gerlich, R.; Wagner, K.; McFarland, M.; Mukhtar, S. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)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) ...
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Sij, J.; Morgan, C.; Belew, M.; Jones, D.; Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-10)The Seymour Aquifer is a shallow aquifer underlying over 300,000 acres in 20 counties in northwest central Texas. High nitrate concentrations are widespread in the Seymour Aquifer. Median nitrate levels in Knox, Haskell, ...
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DiGiovanni, G.; Casarez, E.; Gentry, T.; Martin, E.; Gregory, L.; Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013)The project titled Support Analytical Infrastructure and Further Development of a Statewide Bacterial Source Tracking Library funded by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board was established to provide needed ...
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Wagner, K.; Dictson, N. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013)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 ...
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Gregory, L.; Knutson, A.; Edgerton, E.; Mukherjee, A.; Baumann, P.; Masser, M.; Wagner, K. (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)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 ...