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Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices (open access)

Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices

This report provides information on retrofitting the signalized traffic intersections and retrofitting the signals to solar energy and switching to light emitting diodes (LED) the city will see major energy and cost savings, as well as a significant decrease in maintenance cost and time due to longer lifespan of the LEDs and solar panels.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation); Goodwin, Ronald E. & Godazi, Khosro
System: The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer (open access)

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
System: The Portal to Texas History
Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study (open access)

Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study

The purpose of the Austin to Houston Passenger Rail Study is to analyze the feasibility of implementing 110 mph intercity passenger rail service between Austin and Houston including possible service to Bryan/ College Station. This feasibility analysis consisted of identifying the characteristics of existing rail infrastructure and operations in the study corridors, analyzing potential alternative alignments for the passenger rail operations, and determining required infrastructure and impacts for potential passenger rail service in the study area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast vertical-control surveys (open access)

1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast vertical-control surveys

Comparisons between leveling surveys of different epochs are used to determine vertical displacement of permanent bench marks. Displacement of bench marks usually represents the movement of the surrounding area. In this report, the 1978 Houston-Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast releveling surveys are compared to the 1963, 1973, and 1976 releveling results. The changes in elevations of bench marks common to two or more epochs are tabulated and plotted in Appendix A. From these differences, contour maps were prepared for the 1963 to 1978 and 1973 to 1978 epochs in the 2/sup 0/ x 2/sup 0/ area of maximum subsidence. Annual subsidence rates computed for the 1973 to 1978 period are about 25% less in the maximum subsidence area than the rates computed for the 1963 to 1973 period.
Date: November 1, 1980
Creator: Balazs, E. I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bayport Water System Project Annual Budget: 2012 (open access)

Bayport Water System Project Annual Budget: 2012

Annual budget for the Coastal Water Authority Bayport Water System Project including schedules of revenues and expenditures, with supporting documentation for fiscal year 2012.
Date: December 14, 2011
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget, 2012 (open access)

Trinity River Water Conveyance Project Annual Budget, 2012

This report discusses the Annual Budget for the Trinity River Water Conveyance Project.
Date: November 9, 2011
Creator: Coastal Water Authority (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bush School Capstone Course Support: The Regional Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Infrastructure and Decision Making (open access)

Bush School Capstone Course Support: The Regional Impact of Climate Change on Transportation Infrastructure and Decision Making

"The Master of Public Service and Administration program at Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service requires that all second year graduate students participate in a two semester Capstone course."
Date: September 2009
Creator: Lindquist, Eric
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Annual Financial Report: 2011 (open access)

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Annual Financial Report: 2011

Annual financial report by The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center for fiscal year 2011 including financial statements with supporting schedules.
Date: 2011~
Creator: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report (open access)

Upper Barker Watershed Flood Protection Planning Study Final Report

Report on a flood protection and management plan for the Upper Barker Watershed.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Halff Associates
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Water-Level Measurements in Wells in Harris County, Texas 1966-69 (open access)

Records of Water-Level Measurements in Wells in Harris County, Texas 1966-69

Report on water level measurements in wells in Harris County, Texas from 1966 to 1969.
Date: November 1970
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K.; Bonnet, C. W. & Naftel, W. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region H describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation methods, drought response plans, financing methods, and the process of creation of the plan.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Region H Water Planning Group
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1980-84 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1980-84

This report presents the results of the hydrologic data collection on new large-capacity and other selected wells, including well location and completion data, drillers' logs of the strata penetrated, water levels, and chemical quality of the produced water.
Date: December 1988
Creator: Williams, James F., III; Coplin, L. S.; Ranzau, C. E., Jr.; Lind, W. B.; Bonnet, C. W. & Locke, Glenn L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Land-Surface Subsidence at Seabrook, Texas (open access)

Land-Surface Subsidence at Seabrook, Texas

Abstract: Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, has caused a decline in fluid pressures, which in turn has resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Seabrook is due principally to the removal of water. Significant subsidence of the land surface probably began after 1920, and a minimum of about 3.3 feet (1.0 m) and a maximum of about 4.3 feet (1.3 m) of subsidence had occurred at Seabrook by 1973. Probable future subsidence was calculated by two different methods for each of two different loading situations. In the first loading situation, case I, the artesian heads in the Alta Lorna Sand (Rose, 1943) and Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at the respective rates of 8 feet (2.4 m) per year and 7 feet (2.1 m) per year until 1980 and then cease. In the second loading situation, case II, the artesian heads in the Alta Lorna Sand and Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at rates of 8 and 7 feet (2.4 and 2.1 m) per year until 1990 and then cease.
Date: October 1976
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Moses Lake Near Texas City, Texas (open access)

Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Moses Lake Near Texas City, Texas

Abstract: Removal of water, oil, and gas from the subsurface in Harris and Galveston Counties has caused declines in fluid pressures, which in turn have resulted in subsidence of the land surface. Subsidence of the land surface at Moses Lake is due principally to the removal of ground water in adjacent areas. Significant subsidence of the land surface at Moses Lake began after 1900, and as much as 1.8 feet (0.55 meters) of subsidence had occurred in the area by 1973. Probable future subsidence was calculated by two methods for two loading situations. In the first loading situation, case 1, the artesian head in the middle Chicot aquifer, in the Alta Lorna Sand (Rose, 1943), and in the Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at respective rates of 1, 3, and 3 feet (0.3, 0.9, and 0.9 meters) per year until 1980 and then cease. In the second loading situation, case 2, the artesian head in the middle Chicot aquifer, in the Alta Lorna Sand, and in the Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at respective rates of 1, 3, and 3 feet (0.3, 0.9, and 0.9 meters) per year until 1990 and then cease.
Date: October 1976
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays Near Baytown, Texas (open access)

Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays Near Baytown, Texas

Abstract: Subsidence in the Baytown area is becoming critical because much of the area is subject to inundation by high tides. Withdrawals of water from industrial wells and declines in artesian pressures began about 1918. As much as 280 feet (85.3 meters) of artesian-head decline has occurred in the Evangeline aquifer, and as much as 320 feet (97.5 meters) of decline has occurred in the Alta Lorna Sand. Subsidence of the land surface began about 1920, and as much as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) of subsidence had occurred by 1973. Future subsidence was calculated for two loading situations. Case I provided that the artesian heads in the Alta Lorna Sand and Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at a rate of 6 feet (1.8 meters) per year until 1980. Case II provided that artesian head in the Alta Lorna Sand and Evangeline aquifer would continue to decline at a rate of about 6 feet (1.8 meters) per year until about 1995. The ultimate subsidence expected for the assumed conditions of case I and case II is 11.4 feet (3.47 meters) and 15.1 feet (4.60 meters), respectively.
Date: September 1974
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of the STORM Model for Estimating the Quantity and Quality of Runoff from the Metropolitan Area of Houston, Texas (open access)

Use of the STORM Model for Estimating the Quantity and Quality of Runoff from the Metropolitan Area of Houston, Texas

From introduction: The purpose of this study, made in cooperation with the Texas Department of Water Resources, was to adapt an existing model to utilize available streamflow and water quality data to compute runoff from the Houston area and to compute the concentrations and loads of selected water-quality constituents contained in the inflow to Galveston Bay.
Date: November 1979
Creator: Waddell, Kidd M.; Massey, Bernard C. & Jennings, Marshall E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of the Urbanization on Floods in the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Area (open access)

Effects of the Urbanization on Floods in the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Area

Abstract: Rainfall and runoff data from drainage basins in the Houston metropolitan area and a 60-year rainfall record for the National Weather Service station, Houston-City, were used to simulate 60 annual flood peaks at 26 sites. Selected frequency characteristics, based on these simulated annual peaks are related to drainage area and percentage of impervious area. These relations which may be used to estimate the flood characteristics at ungaged sites, indicate that in the Houston metropolitan area, complete urbanization increases the magnitude of a 2-year flood nine times and increases the magnitude of a 50-year flood five times.
Date: April 1973
Creator: Johnson, Steven L. & Sayre, Douglas M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technique for Estimating the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in the Houston, Texas, Metropolitan Area (open access)

Technique for Estimating the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in the Houston, Texas, Metropolitan Area

This report presents "a technique for estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods in the Houston, Texas, metropolitan area." It includes a map, graph, and tables.
Date: April 1980
Creator: Liscum, Fred & Massey, B. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Value of Urban Parking: An Analysis of Impacts of Smart Parking Systems on Congestion and Land Values in Downtown Houston (open access)

Finding the Value of Urban Parking: An Analysis of Impacts of Smart Parking Systems on Congestion and Land Values in Downtown Houston

Report on Finding the Value of Urban Parking: An Analysis of Impacts of Smart Parking Systems on Congestion and Land Values in Downtown Houston.
Date: January 2018
Creator: Huntsman, Brett; Lasley, Phill & Metsker-Galarza, Madison
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority Annual Report: 2010 (open access)

Texas Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority Annual Report: 2010

Annual report for the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority, providing updates and statistics for each of their facilities and describing the activities of the organization during calendar year 2010,
Date: 2011
Creator: Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority
System: The Portal to Texas History
Travelers' Value of Time and Reliability as Measured on Katy Freeway (open access)

Travelers' Value of Time and Reliability as Measured on Katy Freeway

Report on Traveler's Value of Time and Reliability as Measured on Katy Freeway.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Burris, Mark Whitman, 1970-; Spiegelman, Cliff; Abir, A. K. M. & Le, Sunghoon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2015 (open access)

Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2015

Annual financial report of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2015.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (14th)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79 (open access)

Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79

Report on the published data on ground-water development in the Houston, Texas district.
Date: April 1984
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1975-79 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Harris and Galveston Counties, Texas, 1975-79

Report on new water wells in Harris and Galveston Counties, with hydrologic data, location, completion, logs, levels, and chemical quality.
Date: March 1984
Creator: Ratzlaff, Karl W.; Bonnet, C. W. & Coplin, L. S.
System: The Portal to Texas History