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Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study (open access)

Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study

The report discuses the Medina Count-D'Hanis Flood Protection Study, which evaluates the flooding problems in the D'Hanis area within Medina County and develop cost effective flood reduction alternatives considering public safety and welfare. (Ex Summ I).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board (open access)

Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board

Final report of the Texas Desal Project, "a science-based forum where environmental and permitting issues associated with the construction and operation of a full-scale seawater desalination facility may be identified and solutions integrated into the design process" (p. 1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: NRS Consulting Engineers, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Reuse Research Agenda (open access)

Water Reuse Research Agenda

This report identifies and prioritizes water reuse research topics to advance water reuse in Texas.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: November 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: November 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake (open access)

Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake

This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upland Game Bird Strategic Plan: A Five Year Roadmap (2011-2015) (open access)

Upland Game Bird Strategic Plan: A Five Year Roadmap (2011-2015)

This report "addresses the conservation needs of two of three subspecies of wild turkey, four species of quail, lesser prairie-chicken, pheasant and chachalaca within Texas." (p. 6).
Date: February 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department. Small Game Program.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program (open access)

Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program

This report accounts for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 's (TCEQ) implementation and enforcement authority for the drinking water program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Macrobenthos Productivity in the Guadalupe Estuary (open access)

Effect of Freshwater Inflow on Macrobenthos Productivity in the Guadalupe Estuary

This report provides information about "inflow studies focused on the major bay systems of the Texas coast....The data collected will help assess ecosystem health as it relates to change in freshwater inflow by assessing benthic habitat health, and benthic productivity." (p. 2).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Montagna, Paul A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay (open access)

Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay

Report discussing a recent application of the UTBEST3D (University of Texas Bay and Estuary 3D) simulator which uses the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method defined on unstructured prismatic meshes. The project aimed to produce a calibrated model of Corpus Christi Bay and compared the simulated results to real-world data to test the accuracy of the simulator.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Dawson, Clinton N.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: May 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: May 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: June 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: June 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Assessment of Groundwater Modeling Approaches for Brackish Aquifers :  Final Report (open access)

Assessment of Groundwater Modeling Approaches for Brackish Aquifers : Final Report

Final report of a study assessing groundwater modeling methods for brackish aquifers. The study included a literature review to assess current brackish water applications, a high-level summary of the hydrogeologic features of brackish aquifers in Texas, and the development of method for assessing brackish groundwater resources.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Deeds, Neil Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
Procedures Manual for Joint Committees (open access)

Procedures Manual for Joint Committees

This procedures manual for joint committees of the Texas Legislative Council covers budget submission and approval and account administration issues, staffing issues, administrative support, issues relating to committee proceedings. There are additional appendices that contain information and forms.
Date: [2011..2014]
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry (open access)

Current and Projected Water Use in the Texas Mining and Oil and Gas Industry

This report "documents results for the four tasks described in the scope of work Contract #904830939: 1) identify major mining operations and analyze water-use patterns, 2) estimate current water use withdrawal and consumption, 3) develop long term water-demand projections at the county level, and 4)report the findings of the study and prepare an electronic database....The report is divided into several sections. In each of them, we successively address oil and gas, coal, aggregates, and other mineral substances." (p. 9).
Date: June 2011
Creator: Nicot, Jean-Philippe
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aquifers of Texas Bibliography to support the Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System (BRACS) Program (open access)

Aquifers of Texas Bibliography to support the Brackish Resources Aquifer Characterization System (BRACS) Program

This document contains a bibliography of approximately 7,800 references developed for the "Groundwater Availability Model (GAM) Program and other relevant literature published in journals, books, conference proceedings, government agency reports, theses and dissertations, journals, scientific magazines, and abstracts. The bibliography includes, among other things, references to works on geology, geophysics, geochemistry, hydrology, and other pertinent topics that are relevant to the goals of BRACS." (p. vii).
Date: November 2011
Creator: Young, Steven C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 2, February 23, 2011 (open access)

Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 2, February 23, 2011

This report provides background information on many of the competing demands for funding in the fiscal 2012-13 state budget.
Date: February 23, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) 3D Hydrodynamic Model Comparison (open access)

Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) 3D Hydrodynamic Model Comparison

This document compares the performance of various hydrodynamic models on a common benchmark problem, The Corpus Christi Bay benchmark, designed by Texas Water Development Board (TWDB). The benchmark problem includes a data-set for calibration of the model and another data-set for verification of the model. The application of the Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) to this benchmark problem enabled TWDB to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the model for use in predicting the three-dimensional circulation and salinity transport in bay and estuary systems on the Texas coast. (p. 2).
Date: May 3, 2011
Creator: Huang, Haosheng
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan (open access)

Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan

This document contains the "Jarrel Schwertner Water Supply Corporation (JSWSC)final report for the Regional Water Supply Facility Planning Grant and their response to the Texas Development Boards (TWDB) draft report comment letter."
Date: May 3, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation (open access)

Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation

This document reports a study conducted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) on the condition and treatment capabilities of Kint's Creek Wastewater Treatment Plan (WWTP), located in the City of Terrell. The study helped to identify areas of need at the treatment facility and the ability of the facility to meet future requirements that are Anticipated in the December 2012 Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permit. (p. ES-1.)
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Water Reuse in Texas (open access)

History of Water Reuse in Texas

This report is developed to provide the chronology and historical achievements of water reuse programs in the state.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Arroyo, Jorge; Shirazi, Saqib; McDonald, Ellen; Hood, Karen; Plummer, Alan; Brooks, Bryan W. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 5, December 6, 2011 (open access)

Texas State Finance Report, Volume 82, Number 5, December 6, 2011

This report highlights key provisions of HB 1 by Pitts, the general appropriations act for fiscal 2012-13; HB 4 by Pitts, the supplemental appropriations act; and SB 2 by Ogden, fist called session.
Date: December 6, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Research Organization.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: October 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: October 2011

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Continual Development of a Coastal Geodatabase for Texas: Final Report (open access)

Continual Development of a Coastal Geodatabase for Texas: Final Report

"This report provides a summary of the products created through this effort; and, the activities undertaken to promote the use of WOFpy. WOFpy and other Water Data for Texas Python modules are being released as open-source software under the BSD license so that Python-users and the broader scientific community may benefit from their continual development and use" (p. 3).
Date: December 22, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History