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Improving Austin Streams
• Understanding the TMDL and I-Plan process
• Austin’s water quality & possible solutions
• Improving Austin Streams process and your involvement
Welcome!
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Working Together for Clean Water
Stakeholders and the TCEQ Total Maximum Daily Load Program
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Some of our water is not as good as we would like
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The Law requires us to ask…
▪ What are the problems?
▪ How bad are they?
▪ How can the be corrected?
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TMDL: Total Maximum Daily Load
▪ How much is too much?
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Detective Work
▪ How bad is the problem?
▪ Where is it coming from?
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We Work Together on the Fix
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Implementation Plan
▪ Developed by YOU, the stakeholders
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The I-Plan outlines a solution
▪ What we found out from the TMDL
▪ What we can do about it
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The Community decides
▪ We believe in the wisdom and strength of the community to address its own problems
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We work the plan out together
▪ Many solutions are voluntary
▪ Implemented over time
▪ Progress is measured
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We’re with you TCEQ TMDL Team [email protected] 512-239-6682
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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
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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
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Taylor Slough South
Spicewood Trib to Shoal
Waller Creek (upstream of 15th)
Walnut Creek
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Management Measures
• Riparian Zone Restoration• Wastewater Infrastructure Maintenance• Domestic Pet Waste Education• Resident Outreach• Stormwater Treatment
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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
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For tonight:
√ Please sign in and get background information
√ At the watershed map, put a dot where you live
√ Visit tables to learn more, get answers to your questions, provide comments and volunteer to help
Strategy tables Talk with Coordination Committee & City Staff
• Wastewater Infrastructure
• Stormwater Treatment
• Public Land Management
• Resident Activities
• TMDL/Water Quality
Central Table
• Submit questions and comments • Volunteer to improve Austin-
area water quality
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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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Comment Cards We want to hear from you!
Please leave a comment today, or send to: Improving Austin Streams by October 16th By email: [email protected] By fax: 512-232-1191 By mail: CPPDR, UT Law School 727 E. Dean Keeton St., TNH 4.124 Austin, TX 78705