Background Documents for the Environmental Flows Study

(See also documents on the pages of specific meetings and workshops.)

Reports and information about Water Quality are available on the NETMWD website.

Information about the Environmental Flows Process can also be found at http://www.texaswatermatters.org/environment.htm  and the "New Environmental Flows Allocation Process" (Senate Bill 3) at http://www.texaswatermatters.org/flows.htm

Cypress Creek Basin Summary Report 2009, Texas Clean Rivers Program, Northeast Texas Municipal Water District (NETMWD)

Texas Instream Flow Studies: Draft Technical Overview, 5/22/06

Richter, B.D., Warner, Andrew T., Meyer, Judy L., and Lutz, Kim. 2006. A Collaborative and Adaptive Process for Developing Environmental Flow Recommendations (.pdf, 558 kb)
available at http://www.nature.org/initiatives/freshwater/conservationtools/art16896.html

Black Cypress Report, by TCEQ, November 2005

Texas A&M Summary Report
Supporting the Development of Flow Recommendations, April 2005

Texas A&M Summary Report--Appendices, April 2005

Texas A&M Annotated Bibliography, April 2005

National Academy of Sciences Review, Final Report (1.0 MB), Posted February 8, 2005
Available at http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/instreamflows/index.html

Previous Instream Flow Studies in the Cypress Basin 

Red River Waterway Project, Shreveport, LA, to Daingerfield, TX, Reach, Reevaluation Study In-Progress Review: Appendix 6. Aquatic Resources, USACE IFIM on Big Cypress, 1994

Application of the habitat evaluation procedures in the Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas, USACE HEP Study on Little and Black Cypress, 1987 

Report on Minimum Flow Considerations, Terrestrial Mitigation and Ecological Effects on Caddo Lake Associated with Little Cypress Reservoir Development, Espey, Huston & Associates critique of Little and Black Cypress Studies, 1987 

A Report on the Aquatic Resources of the Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas, USFWS IFIM Study on Little and Black Cypress, 1984