Browsing Technical and Special Reports by Title
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1991-10)Municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills have been found to contain many of the same hazardous constituents as found in hazardous waste landfills. Because of the large number of MSW landfills, these sites pose a serious ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1976-06)The region north of the Canadian River in Texas and including the three western counties of Oklahoma have been rapidly developing the groundwater resource since the mid 1960's. This region, hereafter referred to as the ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1980-12)Salinity of the waters from the Red River and its major tributaries has virtually eliminated its use for irrigation of agricultural crops in Texas and Oklahoma. A chloride control project has been proposed whereby the ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1974-05)This study was undertaken in an effort to develop procedural methodology for the consideration of alternative solutions for water resources development in a short period of time with a view toward reduction of total costs ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)This paper compares alternate approaches to valuing the economic impact of irrigation water shortages from Mexican noncompliance with the 1994 treaty. The two methods compared are an average value-of-water approach, and ...
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(American Chemical Society, 2002)The alluvial aquifer adjacent to Norman Landfill, OK, provides an excellent natural laboratory for the study of anaerobic processes impacting landfill-leachate contaminated aquifers. We collected groundwaters from a transect ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2009-09)Desalination provides a supply alternative for potable water for many communities, along with possible defenses against security threats potentially affecting clean water supplies. The economic and financial life-cycle ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1988-02)Water is a key resource of concern to residents and decision makers in the State of Texas and in many other parts of the United States. Careful planning for its use is of utmost importance for the State and the Nation. ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)Saludo Creek in Bexar County, Texas is one of 65 streams listed as impaired water bodies in the Clean Water Act’s 303(d) list for its high concentration of fecal coliform bacteria (TNRCC, 1998). The restoration of water ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1970-07)One of the major problems in the United States today involves controlling and limiting the pollution of the nation's water resources. The quality of water in streams, reservoirs and estuaries is continually being altered ...
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(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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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1971-06)The normal, log-normal, square-root-normal, and cube-root-normal frequency distributions of hydrometeorological data, viz., precipitation, evaporation, and streamflow, were studied for selected regions of Texas. The regions ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2007-07)Traditionally, water quality monitoring has been focused on chemical attributes such as mineral content, metals, and other contaminants. Biological monitoring is becoming more frequently utilized to assess overall ecological ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002-12-31)In 1997, the Texas Water Development Board identified George Parkhouse I on the South Sulphur River in northeast Texas as a potential reservoir site. This aquatic survey of a future reservoir site is designed to provide ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015-10)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-06-19)As a result of low dissolved oxygen levels, the tidal segment of the Arroyo Colorado (Segment 2201), does not currently meet the aquatic life use designated by the State of Texas and described in the Texas Water Quality ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011)
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(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 ...