Category: 2019
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Private water well screenings set for October in six Texas counties
Article originally written by Kathy Wythe The Texas Well Owner Network (TWON) will present water well screenings in October in Andrews, Gaines, Howard and Martin counties to give Permian Basin residents the opportunity to have their well water tested. TWON is also hosting free screenings in Chambers and Jefferson counties for area residents whose water wells flooded…
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Texas A&M, SFA researchers work to improve quality of East Texas watersheds
Check out this story by Donna McCollum and Jeff Wright of KTRE Channel 9 about researchers at the Texas Water Resources Institute and Stephen F. Austin State University’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture working to improve water quality in East Texas.
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Texas Well Owner Network trainings scheduled for November
Article originally written by Kathy Wythe The Texas Well Owner Network (TWON) has scheduled several free Well Educated trainings for November for private water well owners who depend on household wells for their water needs. Joel Pigg, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist and TWON coordinator, College Station, said the TWON program was established to help…
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Private water well owners should test well after a flood
Private water well owners whose wells flooded during Tropical Depression Imelda should assume that their well water is contaminated until tested, said Diane Boellstorff, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service water resource specialist. “You should not use water from a flooded well for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing your teeth or even bathing until you are satisfied…
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Private water well owners should test well after a flood
Private water well owners whose wells flooded during Tropical Depression Imelda should assume that their well water is contaminated until tested, said Diane Boellstorff, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service water resource specialist. “You should not use water from a flooded well for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing your teeth or even bathing until you are satisfied…
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Water board announces funding for Arroyo Colorado
By RICK KELLEY Staff Writer, The Brownsville Herald HARLINGEN — Nearly a half-million dollars in grant funding has been earmarked for working with agriculture interests along the Arroyo Colorado to reduce pollution in the key Valley waterway. The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board announced $3.7 million in a federal Environmental Protection Agency grant…
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TWRI program trains professionals to improve Texas’ degraded urban rivers, streams
Rivers and streams are the veins that carry surface water. Have you given much thought to their health? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 55% of U.S. rivers and streams are in poor health partially due to insufficient vegetation cover and streamside disturbances, such as quickly developing areas, land conversions and the loss…
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Meet a scientist: Fouad Jaber
Article originally written by Chantal Cough-Schulze Every day, Dr. Fouad Jaber asks and answers two questions about his work in integrated water resource management: What’s the problem, and what are we going to do about it? As a Texas A&M University associate professor and extension specialist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas, Jaber…
