Water Quality


Related Categories:
Advisory Groups - Water Quality
Groups that help the TCEQ implement legislation, develop rules, form policies and procedures, and implement plans to improve water quality.
 
Drinking Water and Water Availability
Texas water districts, public drinking water, water and sewer utilities, assessment and protection of public water supplies, assessment of water availability, watermaster programs, and surface water rights permits.
 
Total Maximum Daily Load Program: Improving Water Quality
Determines the amount by which pollution must be reduced to restore water quality in impaired and threatened streams, lakes, and bays. Develops implementation plans in cooperation with the implementing organizations.
 
Water in Your River or Coastal Basin
Find out the status of water quality in your river or coastal basin, along with protection and improvement programs. Learn how water quality is measured and assessed.
 
Water Quality Management
Documents designed to provide long-range planning and technical data for water quality management activities.
 
Water Quality Planning
Plans for improving and protecting surface water, groundwater, and drinking water. Plans for adequate collection and treatment of wastewater to protect surface and groundwater quality. Documents describing overall planning for water quality and plans for specific watersheds.
 
Topics Under This Category:
Clean Texas Marinas Exit Site
Program encouraging marinas to adopt practices that will promote clean water in Texas.
 
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program Exit Site
Program to implement the plan produced by the former national estuary program
 
Continuing Planning Process
Current management and technical procedures to control, manage, and abate water pollution in Texas.
 
EPA Water Quality Standards Exit Site
Information about these standards, which designate waterbodies by their uses, set criteria to protect those uses, and establish provisions to protect waterbodies from pollutants.
 
Galveston Bay Estuary Program Exit Site
Program to implement the plan produced by the former national estuary program.
 
Nonpoint Source Pollution: Public Education
Materials for communities, schools, groups, and others to participate in the Nonpoint Source Pollution (NPS) public education campaign.
 
Nonpoint Source Water Pollution—Annual Reports
Links to annual reports for the NPS program.
 
Nueces Estuary Advisory Council
Membership and activities of the Nueces Estuary Advisory Council, a group formed to monitor the implementation of an agreed order issued by the Texas Water Commission.