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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2019-10)This booklet is used in the Texas Riparian and Stream Ecosystem Trainings to accompany presentations by the course instructors, provide educational content and more.
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2019-09)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.
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2019-11)A pocket guide with septic system best practices with maintenance and inspection recommendations, tips for a longer-lasting septic system, resources and more.
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2019-11)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2019-03)Regular maintenance and upkeep of your septic system is crucial to ensure its proper function and longevity. Not maintaining your septic system can result in economic and ecological harm to your local environment and ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2018-06)This document includes a list of practices that not only help improve livestock and crop production, but they also help improve the water quality in ponds, streams, and rivers in your area!
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(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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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2016)Goal • Equip irrigation managers and technical support personnel with information and resources to support improved irrigation management and water conservation. Objectives 1. Provide participants with core knowledge ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015-12)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015)When considering using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)/ Automated Meter Reading (AMR) systems, every utility has different needs and will have varied experiences in making decisions about changes to its system and ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2014)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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2015-04)There are 273 bacterially impaired water bodies in Texas. Identifying and assessing sources of these bacteria — E. coli, Enterococcus, fecal coliforms — is critical to properly determining risk to water recreation, developing ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-06)Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act requires that each state set water quality standards to ensure all uses of a water body have the appropriate water quality. Some of those uses include aquatic life, drinking water, ...
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(2013)Urban-municipal use is the second largest category of water use in Texas. Within this use category, lawn and landscape water use is a significant, but largely unmeasured, component. Landscapes are important components of ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2009-05)The Marfa Activity Center rainwater collection system is designed to provide water for drip irrigation and small wildlife and birds. It includes two collection tanks and irrigation systems.
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(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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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-02-24)There are 273 bacterially impaired water bodies in Texas. Identifying and assessing sources of these bacteria — E. coli, Enterococcus, fecal coliforms — is critical to properly determining risk to water recreation, developing ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-02-24)According to the 2010 Texas Integrated Report, there are 303 bacterially impaired waterbodies in Texas. Nonpoint sources (NPS) of pollution greatly affect water quality. Identifying and assessing sources of fecal pollution ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2012-06-05)Excess water from various landscape activities in the Lower Rio Grande Valley are drained through the Arroyo Colorado eventually emptying into the lower Laguna Madre. The Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge and several ...