Water Resources of Texas

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Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Report

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Geologic Framework and Hydrogeologic Characteristics of the "Upper Confining Unit" to the Edwards Aquifer, Bexar County, TX Trinity Aquifer Assessment, Northern Bexar County, TX Karst and Invertebrate Survey of the Woodland Hills Natural Area, Northern Bexar County, TX Air Force Plant 4/Naval Air Station Ft. Worth Ground-water Model Conceptualization and simulation of the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas Water Resources Investigations of Lake LBJ, Texas Fort Bliss Urban Runoff: Volume-Frequency of the Fort Bliss SumpFluvial Geomorphic Units of the Middle and Lower Brazos and Navasota Rivers, Texas Historic Cross-Sectional Adjustment of the Middle and Lower Brazos and Navasota Rivers, Texas Potential for Bed-Material Entrainment in Selected Streams of the Edwards Plateau - Edwards, Kimble, and Real Counties, Texas, and vicinity Watershed Influences and In-Lake Processes Effect on Water-quality, Lake Houston, TX Water-Level Altitudes and Water-Level Changes in the Chicot, Evangeline, and Jasper Aquifers and Clay Compaction in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston-Galveston-Conroe Region, Texas Hydrologic and Geochemical Assessment of Flow Paths in the Edwards Aquifer, Northeastern Bexar and Southern Comal Counties, Texas Evaluation of Effects of Ashe Juniper Removal on Water Quantity, Water Quality, and Suspended-Sediment Loads, Honey Creek State Natural Area, South-Central, TX Water-Quality and Biological Assessments of Fluvial Sections of the Rio Grande, Pecos River, and Devils River in the Amistad National Recreation Area Lake Arrowhead Arsenic Study Big Cypress Creek Flows and Geomorphic Geodatabase and 3D Conceptual Model for Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant (LHAPP)Use of Compound-Specific Stable Isotopes of Carbon and Chlorine in Conjunction with Clorinated Ethene Concentration Ratios and Predominant Terminal Electron- Accepting Process Determinations for Source Tracking in a Clorinated-Solvent Plume, Fort Worth, Texas Distribution and Sources of Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Suspended, Streambed, and Lake-Bottom Sediment Samples from Meandering Road Creek and Woods Inlet, Lake Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2004-07 Groundwater Wells Under the Influence of Surface Water as Determined by Microscopic Particulate Analysis Sampling Predicated on Near Real-Time Geochemical Data

USGS Texas News

New Findings on PAHs & Urban Lake Contamination in Central & Eastern US (press release)

USGS Texas Job Listings

A number of new employment opportunities with the Texas Water Science Center are currently available.

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Hurricane Information

Texas Coastal Basin Sites

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Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Report

USGS Response to Hurricane Ike

USGS Response to Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Sites Related to Specialized Coastal Issues

Daisetta, Tex., Sinkhole

What's Up With Sinkholes?

The USGS is currently investigating the sink hole. More information and images will be posted soon.

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Cooperating Agency Reports

Rio Grande Ecosystem Restoration

Reference Maps

Karst Proceedings

U.S. Geological Survey Karst Interest Group Proceedings, Bowling Green, Kentucky, May 27-29, 2008

CoreCasts

USGS Podcasts

Scheduled Seminar Series

Please join us for these technical talks/WebEx sessions scheduled in the coming months.

March 5, 2008 - "Surface Geophysics and Hydrogeologic Characteristics of Cibolo Canyon, Bexar county, TX" Presented by: Sachin Shah

Map and directions to the Texas Water Science Center

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Spotlight on Texas Projects

The Texas Water Science Center conducts hydrologic projects that address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, ground-water contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic data collection.

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Featured Project:

USGS Study of Nutrient Conditions in the Edwards Plateau 2005-2006

During the summers of 2005 and 2006 the U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, evaluated nutrient concentrations and biological communities in small streams in portions of the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas. Land-cover analysis was used to select 15 small streams that represented a gradient of conditions with the potential to affect nutrient concentrations across the study area. Data collected included information on water chemistry, nutrients, algae, benthic invertebrates, and fish.

This report presents the results of that data collection effort and (1) describes the range of nutrient and biological conditions in selected small streams in the eastern part of the plateau; (2) identifies and examines relations between nutrient concentrations and biological-response variables; (3) examines the effects of stream flow on relations between nutrients and biological conditions.

• Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5195

USGS Texas Highlights

2007 Water Data Now Available (Quick look:
Beginning with water year 2006, the annual water data product took on a new format different from the previous report series. The basic product is a Site Data Sheet that serves to publish all data collected during the water year at any given site.

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The 2007 USGS Water Data Report () is now available to provide a snapshot of water conditions for a given year. The report includes text and map interfaces that can be used to identify and access an area of interest, locate sites where water data were collected for various Water Years

Instantaneous Data Archive (IDA) (Quick look:
Since 1889 the United States Geological Survey has collected continuous stage, discharge, and other instantaneous time-series data on the nations rivers and streams. These time-series data have been and are typically recorded at intervals ranging from 5 to 60 minutes. These instantaneous data have been processed into and published as various daily values, such as the daily maximum, minimum, and/or mean. Because the published record are daily values, the original instantaneous data have not historically been officially approved, published, or made widely available. This web site has been established to make available as much historical instantaneous data from USGS data collection stations as possible. Although this site currently serves instantaneous discharge (streamflow) data only, work is planned to extend it to other time-series parameters in the future.

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The Instantaneous Data Archive() makes available as much intra-day streamflow data and historical instantaneous data continuous (measurements from every 5 to every 60 minutes), as possible, often several years' worth of data.