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Techniques For Mitigating Urban Sprawl |
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| Natural Resource Preservation - Water Protection |
| Water Quality Protection Programs |
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As an example, Austin (TX) has the Water Quality Protection Program. The purpose of the program is to prevent, detect, evaluate, and reduce water pollution in order to protect water quality and aquatic life in creeks, lakes, and aquifers. The program’s staffs protect water quality with a wide range of pollution control strategies. They inspect and permit small businesses to prevent pollution discharges, respond to emergency spills and pollution complaints, educate citizens on ways to prevent pollution, and build water quality ponds to treat contaminated stormwater runoff. Lakes, creeks, and groundwater are also monitored to identify problem areas and to help plan effective protection. Case/Example: City of Austin (TX)’s Water Quality Protection Program. Source/Reference: City of Austin, A.
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The TWDB is the lead state agency for coordinating the regional water planning process and developing a comprehensive state water plan. Id.The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) provides water planning, data collection and dissemination, financial assistance and technical assistance. See TWDB website, http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/about/aboutTWDBmain.asp. TWDB supports regions in developing their regional water plans that will be incorporated into a statewide water plan. Among other duties, it also maintains a centralized data bank of information on the state's natural resources called the
Texas Natural Resources Information System and manages the
Strategic Mapping Program, a Texas-based, public and private sector cost-sharing program to develop consistent, large-scale computerized base maps describing basic geographic features of Texas.
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Texas Center Publications – “The quality of our water—whether it is for drinking, fishing, recreation or other uses—is an extremely important issue to most Texans.1 Our federal, state and local governments spend millions of dollars and thousands of man hours each year carrying out programs designed to protect and improve water quality. Providers of drinking water must run expensive water quality tests and install treatment systems to make sure that the tap water is safe to drink. Industrial operations must comply with various levels of mandatory regulations to reduce their discharge of pollutants to surface water and ground water. Federal and state governments have intensified efforts to reduce water pollution from agricultural operations and many farmers are now involved in voluntary programs to reduce contaminated run-off from crops and other agricultural operations.”
Texas Water Resources Institute – “The Texas Water Resources Institute, a unit of the Texas Agriculture Experiment Station and Texas Cooperative Extension, and member of the National Institutes for Water Resources, provides leadership to stimulate priority research and Extension educational programs in water resources within the Texas A&M University System and throughout Texas.”
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Envision Central Texas  6800 Burleson Road, Building 310, Suite 165 Austin, TX 78744 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 17848 Austin, TX 78760-7848 |
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