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Eagle Mountain Watershead Stakeholders Briefed
on North Central Texas Water Quality Project Findings Sept 3, 2008
The Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) in cooperation with Texas
AgriLife Research and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, agencies
of The Texas A&M University System, had a public meeting on Wednesday,
September 3, 2008. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the latest
findings of the North Central Texas Water Quality Project with regard
to water quality in the Eagle Mountain Reservoir Watershed.
The goal of these proceedings was to provide information, solicit stakeholder
input, and garner support for the development of a watershed protection
plan for the Eagle Mountain Reservoir Watershed. Watershed planning
is a collaborative process in which residents, elected officials, agency
representatives, and agricultural producers work together to develop
a comprehensive strategy to reduce pollutants in local water bodies.
The North Central Texas Water Quality Project is supported by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Department of
Agricultural- Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Texas A&M
AgriLife Water Resources Institute.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Watershed Coordinator
David Waidler at 972.952.9689 or d-waidler@tamu.edu.
Clint Wolfe is the Project Manager of the North Central Texas Water
Quality Project.
North Central Texas
http://nctx-water.tamu.edu
Water Quality Project
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension CenteratDallas 17360 Coit Road,
Dallas, Texas 75252
The Star-Telegram coverage of the meeting can be read at http://www.star-telegram.com/health/story/891453.html
Texas Watershed Steward Workshop July 15th 2009
A Texas Watershed Steward Workshop was conducted on July 15th 2009 at
the
Lighthouse Fellowship Church on Robertson Road. It was presented by
a team from
the AgriLIFE EXTENSION of the Texas A&M System. There were about
65 attendees
from the areas around Eagle Mountain Lake.
The program agenda included: Program Introduction, Overview of Watershed
Systems, Overview of Watershed Impairments, Managing to Improve Watershed
Functions and Community-Driven Watershed Protection and Management.
The workshop was well organized and the four presenters are experts
in their field.
Everybody lives in a watershed whether it leads to a stream, river,
lake, gulf or
ocean. Runoff from your yard of driveway leads into some watershed body.
I could go into the workshop in great detail, however it is available
on the website at
http://tws.tamu.edu/
I recommend that each of you go into the website and determine how
the information will impact what is going on around Eagle Mountain Lake.
Save Eagle Mountain Lake Inc. is on a committee to design a Watershed
Protection
Plan to clean up our watershed. Three meetings have been conducted so
far and the
next meeting will present a model of how we can go about accomplishing
that task.
It will be a long process but one we need to aggressively support in
order to make
sure our lake is not anymore impaired than it already is. We are rated
five out of
nine as the criteria for being impaired and it is primarily due to phosphorus
from
fertilizer which creates algae. We are not in bad shape yet but we need
to reduce
the amount of algae growing in the lake to clean up the water quality.
Dick Fish
President
Save Eagle Mountain Lake Inc.
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