Thompsons Creek watershed protection meeting set for Dec. 16 in Bryan
Community members, landowners invited to help develop protection plan
The Texas Water Resources Institute, TWRI, will host a stakeholder meeting for the Thompsons Creek Watershed Partnership on Dec. 16 in Bryan.
The meeting will start at 1:30 p.m. at the Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest Drive.
Community members, landowners and anyone with an interest in local water quality can attend to help develop the Thompsons Creek Watershed Protection Plan.
The meeting serves as a forum for public input, which is driving the development of a voluntary, stakeholder-driven watershed protection plan, WPP, for Thompsons Creek. The WPP will outline strategies to improve local water quality.
“Water samples collected in Thompsons Creek and its tributaries — Still Creek and Cottonwood Branch — by the Brazos River Authority and TWRI confirmed the presence of bacteria concentrations above the applicable standard for recreational activities in the creek,” said Ward Ling, TWRI program specialist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Bryan-College Station.
Improving local water quality
The meeting will provide an overview of the project and a review of the plan’s draft chapters. Additionally, an overview of the Chapter 6 draft of the WPP will be presented. This chapter provides information about the types and locations of management measures that can be implemented to improve and protect water quality.
Previous meeting materials are available at thompsonscreek.twri.tamu.edu/resources/.
Funding for the Thompsons Creek WPP is provided in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through a Clean Water Act Section 319(h) grant to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
TWRI is a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research that brings together expertise from across The Texas A&M University System.
For more information, contact Ling at [email protected].
