Targeted Monitoring Project
Currently, routine water quality data is collected monthly at two stations on Plum Creek (#17406 and #12640) by GBRA and quarterly at a third station (#12647) by the TCEQ. A grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the TSSWCB currently supports additional monitoring, including a number of supplemental monitoring sites. It is hoped this additional water quality data from tributaries, springs, and wastewater treatment plants within the Plum Creek Watershed will vastly improve our understanding of pollutant trends in the area and help identify focus areas to reduce pollutant loading.
The supplmenental monitoring project includes:
- Routine monitoring at 5 sites monthly, and one site quarterly over 15 months.
- Targeted monitoring at 35 sites twice per season, once under dry weather conditions and once under wet weather conditions each season, for four seasons.
- Automated stormflow monitoring of an urban site during at least four storm events.
- 24-hour dissolved oxygen monitoring at 8 sites monthly during the index period.
- Effluent monitoring of wastewater treatment facilities at the City of Lockhart (2), City of Luling, City of Buda, City of Kyle and Shadow Creek.
- Springflow monitoring at three springs.
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