Tag: water quality
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What’s in the water? Davidson Creek area residents invited to public meeting
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) invites community members, landowners, and anyone with an interest in local water quality to attend the fourth public meeting for the Davidson Creek Watershed Protection Plan (WPP). The meeting begins at noon onSept. 16 at the Burleson County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Office, 1516 FM 166, Caldwell, Texas.…
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Cleaning Produced Water
Creating new possibilities for water reuse, this Texas A&M professor’s lab is perfecting techniques for treating water byproduct from oil and gas production. Solving an underground problem What exactly is produced water? “Produced water is the wastewater that comes out of oil exploration and production activities,” Chellam said. “A long time ago, there used to…
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Get a closer look: Early spring brings idyllic water quality monitoring conditions
Article originally written by Sadie Kammlah Early spring in Texas means chilly mornings, budding trees, emerging wildflowers and warm afternoons — and some of Texas’ most idyllic conditions for fieldwork. Recently the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) water quality monitoring team headed to East Texas to conduct routine water quality monitoring at Town Creek. The…
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Q&A: How does flooding impact water quality monitoring?
Texans are no strangers to severe weather events. Each year brings its challenges of potential droughts, fires, hurricanes, flash floods and more. A heavy rain season brings additional challenges to the water team at the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) and their monthly routine water quality sampling visits to water bodies around Texas. We talked…
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Behind the scenes: water quality monitoring at Town Creek
This week the Texas Water Resources Institute’s water team was out at Town Creek, one of our newest project sites, conducting regularly scheduled water quality monitoring. Research specialists Shaylynn Postma and Amanda Tague, along with student technician Janelle Wright, measured flow rate, pH, velocity and other instream conditions, and collected samples from the three sites for E.coli. Over time, monthly water…
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Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
Article originally written by Cameron Castilaw In 1993, TGPC saw the 73rd Texas State Legislature amend the Texas Water Code to extend committee membership to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (now Texas A&M AgriLife Research) and the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin (the Bureau). The legislature set TGPC’s duties…
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Middle Yegua Creek watershed meeting set for June 11 in Giddings
The public is invited to join the Middle Yegua Creek Watershed Partnership and attend a project meeting on June 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Lee County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Office, 310 South Grimes Street, in Giddings. This partnership will serve as the forum for public input, which will drive the development of…
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Research roundup: new water research from around Texas
Article originally written by Madison Pigg The Medina River in April 2024. (Photo by Tina Hendon, TWRI.) Peer-reviewed publications by Texas A&M University System scientists Effects of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid on microbial community structure during anaerobic digestion: This new research by Texas A&M AgriLife scientists focuses on the fundamental understanding of biological…
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Little Bay water quality public discussion set for May 7 in Rockport
The Texas Water Resources Institute, TWRI, is hosting a public meeting on May 7 in Rockport for anyone interested in a brief presentation and discussion of ongoing research in the Little Bay watershed involving microbial source tracking and human health risk analysis. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. at the Bay Education Center,…
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New research quantifies how much ag best practices help protect water quality
Articles originally written by Cameron Castilaw TWRI staff install a water quality sampler station for this research project in 2017. (Photo courtesy of Lucas Gregory, TWRI.) Do best management practices actually work? Sure, they sound nice, but can small land management changes really improve waterways for everyone? Yes, says recently published research co-authored by the Texas Water…
