Browsing Technical and Special Reports by Title
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(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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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-11)This report summarizes our initial analysis of the potential of thermal imaging for detecting leaking canals and pipelines. Thermal imagery (video format) was obtained during a fly over of a portion of the main canal of ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1964-05)This study involves four of the twelve major river basins of the state of Texas and is essentially a proposal to divert water from the Red River into the trinity, Neches and Sabine River Basins. When first considered, it ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1966-01)This study involves four of the twelve major river basins of the state of Texas and is essentially a proposal to divert water from the Red River into the Trinity, Neches and Sabine River Basins. When first considered, it ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2008-07)This report presents the results for Subtask 1.7 of the Pecos River Basin Assessment project sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board (TSSWCB). The ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-11)
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1966-12)Clean fresh water is the most precious natural resource available to mankind. People must have water for personal, municipal, industrial and recreational use. At the present time, most of the available fresh water in the ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002-08-14)With the current population boom, the number of Texas residents will almost double by 2030. With the expected increase in demand for water, the scarcity of water is an urgent issue and research is being conducted to find ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1976-10)The wastewater produced by the wood preserving industry presents a difficult problem to treat economically. A review of the literature indicates the size of the industry has limited the pursuit of an orderly and economic ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2002)Salado Creek in Bexar County, Texas is one of 65 streams listed as impaired water bodies for its high concentration of fecal coliform bacteria in the Clean Water Act’s 303(d) list. The Hydrological Simulation Program-FORTRAN ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2006)This study presents an economic analysis of agricultural benefits attributable to a proposed drainage project which includes on farm systems, laterals (ditches) and major canals designed to lower the groundwater table ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2010-12)Soil types (texture and profile configuration), soil salinity, sodicity, subsoil drainage, and fluctuating high water tables, have the pronounced effect on tree performance in pecan orchards established in alluvial soils. ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2011-04)With only a few exceptions, irrigation districts in the Texas border region have old, outdated database systems that need to be replaced. These old databases are costly to maintain, make accessing and analyzing data ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2004)Not long ago, conversations on urban water demand were not only rare but dull. Today, especially in the West and Southwest, these conversations can turn into heated debates. The question of who has enough water for the ...
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Urbanizing Watersheds and Changing River Flood Dynamics: Implications for Urban Wetland Restoration (2003)Urbanization alters river hydrology, morphology, water quality, and habitat and ecology. Most of these associated changes are due to an increase in impervious surface cover (ISC) throughout the watershed. But the spatial ...
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Urbanizing Watersheds and Changing River Flood Dynamics: Implications for Urban Wetland Restoration (Texas Water Resources Institute, 2003)Urbanization alters river hydrology, morphology, water quality, and habitat and ecology. Most of these associated changes are due to an increase in impervious surface cover (ISC) throughout the watershed. But the spatial ...
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(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 ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 1996-01)The exposure of an organism to a toxicant is defined by the magnitude, duration, and frequency with which the organism(s) interact with the toxicant(s). Predicting the exposure of organisms to toxicants during episodic ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2007-07-23)Vegetation along the riparian corridor of the lower Pecos River in the United States has been dominated by saltcedar for the past century. In 1999 through 2004, herbicides were sprayed from helicopters along some sections ...
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(Texas Water Resources Institute, 2004-06)