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Improving Austin Streams

Improving Austin Streams. Welcome!. Understanding the TMDL and I-Plan process Austin’s water quality & possible solutions Improving Austin Streams process and your involvement. Working Together for Clean Water. Stakeholders and the TCEQ Total Maximum Daily Load Program.

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Improving Austin Streams

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  1. Improving Austin Streams Welcome! • Understanding the TMDL and I-Plan process • Austin’s water quality & possible solutions • Improving Austin Streams process and your involvement

  2. Working Together for Clean Water Stakeholders and the TCEQ Total Maximum Daily Load Program

  3. Some of our water is not as good as we would like

  4. The Law requires us to ask… • What are the problems? • How bad are they? • How can the be corrected?

  5. TMDL: Total Maximum Daily Load • How much is too much?

  6. Detective Work • How bad is the problem? • Where is it coming from?

  7. We Work Together on the Fix

  8. Implementation Plan • Developed by YOU, the stakeholders

  9. The I-Plan outlines a solution • What we found out from the TMDL • What we can do about it

  10. The Community decides • We believe in the wisdom and strength of the community to address its own problems

  11. We work the plan out together • Many solutions are voluntary • Implemented over time • Progress is measured

  12. We’re with you • TCEQ TMDL Team • tmdl@tceq.texas.gov • 512-239-6682

  13. E. coli as a fecal indicator • Contact Recreation Standard set by Texas Commission on Environmental Quality • Measure potential for fecal contamination, not actual presence of pathogens • Long-term measure of conditions, not an assessment of human risk

  14. Sources of Fecal Contamination • Domestic animals (dogs, cats, chickens) • Leaking wastewater infrastructure • Wildlife (deer, bird, racoon, etc.) • Humans defecating in creeks • Failing homeowner septic tanks

  15. Taylor Slough South Spicewood Trib to Shoal Waller Creek (upstream of 15th) Walnut Creek

  16. Management Measures • Riparian Zone Restoration • Wastewater Infrastructure Maintenance • Domestic Pet Waste Education • Resident Outreach • Stormwater Treatment

  17. Improving Austin Streams Coordination Committee • 13 members representing interests identified by citizens at meetings this past winter • Formed four workgroups, which brought back five sets of management measures • Developed the draft I-Plan • Wants your comments and input now • Wants your help in implementing the plan

  18. For tonight: √ Please sign in and get background information √ At the watershed map, put a dot where you live

  19. What’s next? • Coordination Committee reviews your comments and makes changes to the I-Plan (responses to comments will be online) • Draft I-Plan goes to TCEQ • Formal comment period on I-Plan and TMDL • Coordination Committee makes additional changes • Implementation • Yearly reviews of progress, and adjustment

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