Preserving the natural beauty and water quality of Cypress Creek
for generations to come
Our Goal:
Cypress Creek Watershed Protection Plan aims to ensure that the long-term integrity and sustainability of the Cypress Creek watershed is preserved and that water quality standards are maintained for present and future generations.
By: Houston Chronicle | February 11, 2019
Texas is one of the fastest growing states in the country. But a downside of this growth is that, coupled with extreme weather events, such as droughts and floods, many of our existing water resources are becoming overburdened.
By: CBS Austin News | February 15, 2019
Nick Dornak is the director of watershed services at Texas State University in San Marcos. Since 2012, he’s been working with Caldwell County on a bounty program to encourage landowners and hunters to help stop the spread of the state’s pig problem.
By: E&E News | February 15, 2019
With the memory still fresh of Hurricane Harvey's deadly 2017 assault on the Texas coast, which swamped part of the nation's refining and chemical industry, state lawmakers are looking for ways to prevent devastating future flooding.
By: USA Today | February 8, 2019
Tap water in Austin, Texas, stinks. And, city officials say zebra mussels in a raw water pipeline are to blame. A line at a water treatment plant southwest of Lake Austin became infested with the invasive species about a year ago, the Austin Monitor reports, and city began removing the mollusks.
By: World Economic Forum | February 7, 2019
These maps are both data-rich and absolutely gorgeous. You’re looking at watershed maps, showing the flow of tributary streams into main rivers, and of those water courses into the sea (or final destinations inland).
By: Wimberley Valley Watershed Association | February 6, 2019
The Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District’s (HTGCD) job is to protect groundwater that you own beneath your property and all the groundwater resources, like Jacob’s Well, that play a vital role in Hays County’s economy.
By: Hays Free Press | February 6, 2019
Protecting landowners from a proposed 430-mile natural gas pipeline is the focus for Hays County officials as they seek to talk with Kinder Morgan about alternative routes for its proposed Permian Highway Pipeline.
By: TPWD News | February 6, 2019
Planning a day or overnight trip to a Texas State Park just got easier with new online features available in the Texas State Parks reservation system.
By: Texas living Waters Project
This is the concept of ASR: during times of plentiful water, extra water can be withdrawn from a river (or other source) and then injected and stored within an aquifer. When the original water source runs low due to drought, low rainfall or other causes, this water can then be pulled from the aquifer and used.
By: The Texas Tribune | January 30, 2019
In 1993, the Legislature passed a law that said state parks and historic sites could receive all of the money generated by a tax on the sale of sporting goods. Since then, state lawmakers have given the parks department only about 40 percent of those collections.
By: The Texas Tribune | January 24, 2019
Before the next Hurricane Harvey strikes and thousands of homes are damaged or destroyed, some Texas lawmakers want to make sure communities statewide are better prepared for floods.
By: Austin American-Statesman | January 24, 2019
For the last several years, scientists have warned of the sinking ground beneath cities along the Gulf Coast. Known as subsidence, it’s a strange phenomenon that gradually deflates the surface of the ground as groundwater is pumped from beneath.
By: Courthouse News Service | January 17, 2019
The dying grass told Jason Peeler something was amiss with sections of his family’s ranch an hour south of San Antonio. He got answers last March, when federal rules forced the operator of a coal-fired power plant in the middle of the family’s land to release its pollution data
By: The Austin Chronicle | January 25, 2019
University of Texas biologist have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in the Central Texas region, which could further inflame tensions between property-rights advocates and environmentalists seeking to protect both the two-to three-inch-long, slimy amphibians and the clean, drinkable water supplies in which they live (and which we humans also favor).
By: Austin American-Statesman | January 21, 2019
It might be difficult to imagine a lack of water after all of the recent rain and flooding, but we know from history that there is one thing we can always count on in Texas: there will be another drought.
By: San Marcos Corridor News | January 10, 2019
On Tuesday, January 8, Judge Ruben Becerra presided over his first Hays County Commissioners Court meeting. The meeting included several executive session items regarding county staff and two items regarding Feral Hogs.
By: Environmental Monitor | January 2, 2019
Among the most important water resources in the Lone Star State, the Edwards Aquifer lies beneath 12 Texas counties and is one of the most prolific and largest artesian aquifers worldwide. Almost two million people in Central Texas rely on the Edwards Aquifer for drinking water, including San Antonio and San Marcos.
By: Texas Living Waters Project | December 10, 2018
One of the clearest threats to the future of the Texas economy and the well-being of our communities is the lack of water. During times of drought, supplies are already stretched razor thin in many areas of the state – so, what will happen when our state’s population more than doubles in the coming decades? Millions of Texans could be left high and dry.
By: KXAN | December 14, 2018
AUSTIN — Texas has more than 440,000 miles — yes, miles — of pipelines running across the state. According to the Rail Road Commission, that’s one-sixth of all the pipelines in the United States.
So what harm could one more pipeline do?
By: Houston Public Media | December 13, 2018
A commission convened by Gov. Greg Abbott to focus on rebuilding after Hurricane Harvey issued a report Thursday saying the state should take a series of steps to prepare for the next big storm, including improving local disaster response procedures and considering major infrastructure projects designed to harden the state against future disasters.