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Evaluation of Electrostatic Particle Ionization and BioCurtain Technologies to Reduce Dust, Odor and other Pollutants from Broiler Houses Final Report
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011)
Confined poultry production has increased in Texas and along with it, complaints of odor and
dust. These issues are a major problem in the United States not only for confined animal health
but also for the increasing ...
A Multivariate Water Quality Investigation of Select Drainage Ditches in the Arroyo Colorado River Watershed, Texas
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-05)
Drainage ditches are widely used for agricultural water management to help remove excess water from fields, which mitigates the effects of water logging and salinization. These ditches act as a direct hydraulic link between ...
Evaluation of Smart Irrigation Controllers: Year 2011 Results
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-06)
A smart controller testing facility was established by the Irrigation Technology Center at Texas A&M University in College Station in 2008 in order to evaluate their performance from an "enduser" point of view. The "end-user" ...
Use of GIS as a Real Time Decision Support System for Irrigation Districts
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-12)
The objectives were to provide the districts with a simple tool that would improve the availability of pumps and gates data from the existing SCADA system, improve the management of water orders, and allow access of data ...
Water Quality Monitoring in the Buck Creek Watershed and Facilitation of Buck Creek Watershed Partnership
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013-08)
The “Water Quality Monitoring in the Buck Creek Watershed and Facilitation of Buck Creek Watershed Partnership” project was developed to continue water quality monitoring on Buck Creek and to continue to engage watershed ...
Applications of Expanded WRAP Modeling Capabilities to the Brazos WAM
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-10-01)
The Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP) is routinely applied in the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Water Availability Modeling (WAM) System. However, the Brazos River Basin studies documented by this ...
Evaluation of the CRITERIA Irrigation Scheme Soil Water Balance Model in Texas – Initial Results
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011)
The CRITERIA model was created in the 1990s in Italy, and is based on the soil water balance computation procedures developed at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands in the 1980s. CRITERIA has been used as an ...
Arroyo Colorado: A Compilation and Evaluation of Prior Studies and Data
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-04-11)
This report was compiled per the project, “Arroyo Colorado Agricultural Nonpoint Source Assessment” funded by the TSSWCB through the CWA §319(h) NPS Grant Program. Under this project, TWRI was tasked to (1) compile historical ...
Water Rights Analysis Package (WRAP) Modeling System Users Manual
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-10-01)
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI), and many other agencies and organizations, have worked with Ralph Wurbs over the years to develop WRAP (the Water Rights Analysis Package). The WRAP model simulates management ...
Costs of Saving Water in South Texas with Irrigation District Infrastructure Rehabilitation - Using Capital Budgeting with RGIDECON©
(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2013-03)
As a part of the irrigation district plans, economists with Texas AgriLife Research and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service (through the Rio Grande Basin Initiative), developed and applied a spreadsheet model RGIDECON© ...