Example Watershed Protection Plans
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
TMDLs or I-Plans in Development
- Corpus Christi Beaches: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Jarbo Bayou: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Lower San Antonio River: A Community TMDL Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Mission and Aransas Rivers, Tidal Portions: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Oso Bay: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Oso Creek: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- San Jacinto River, East and West Forks: Protecting Recreational Uses
- Upper San Antonio River: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
Watersheds where TMDLs are being implemented
- Armand Bayou Watershed: A TMDL Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Austin Area Watersheds: A TMDL Project to Protect Recreational Uses
- Carters Creek Watershed: Implementing TMDLs to Protect Recreational Uses
- Colorado River Below E.V. Spence Reservoir: Implementing a Plan to Improve Water Quality
- Dickinson Bayou: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses
- E.V. Spence Reservoir: Implementing TMDLs for Total Dissolved Solids and Sulfate
- Gilleland Creek: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses
- Greater Trinity Region: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses
- Guadalupe River Above Canyon Lake: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses
- Houston-Galveston Region BIG: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses
- Lake Austin - A TMDL Project for Dissolved Oxygen
- Lake O' the Pines: Implementing a Plan to Protect Aquatic Life
- Lower Sabinal River: A TMDL Project for Nitrate-Nitrogen
- North Bosque River: Implementing a TMDL to Protect General Uses
- Orange County Watersheds: A TMDL Project to Protect Aquatic Life and Recreational Uses
- Petronila Creek: Implementing a Plan to Improve Water Quality
- Upper Oyster Creek: Implementing TMDLs to Protect Aquatic Life and Recreational Uses
- Upper Texas Gulf Coast: A Project for Bacteria in Oyster Waters
Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board
- Continued Statewide Delivery of the Texas Watershed Steward Program
- Coordinating Implementation of the Lampasas River Watershed Protection Plan
- Coordinating Implementation of the Leon River Watershed Protection Plan
- Coordinating Implementation of the Plum Creek Watershed Protection Plan
- Development of a Watershed Protection Plan for Cedar Bayou
- Development of a Watershed Protection Plan for Double Bayou
- Development of the Lower Nueces River Watershed Protection Plan
- Development of the Mill Creek Watershed Protection Plan
- Development of the Upper Llano River Watershed Protection Plan
- Implementation of the Leon River Water Protection Plan through Technical and Financial Assistance to Repair or Replace Failing On-Site Sewage Facilities in Hamilton County
- Implementing Agricultural Nonpoint Source Components of the Geronimo and Alligator Creeks Watershed Protection Plan
- Implementing Best Management Practices to Reduce Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution in Support of the Arroyo Colorado WPP
- Investigation into Contributions of Nitrate-Nitrogen to Plum Creek, Geronimo Creek and the Underlying Leona Aquifer
- Surface Water Quality Monitoring and Additional Data Collection Activities to Support the Implementation of the Plum Creek Watershed Protection Plan
- Surface Water Quality Monitoring to Support Plum Creek Watershed Protection Plan Development
- Surface Water Quality Monitoring to Support the Implementation of the Lampasas River Watershed Protection Plan
- Water Quality Monitoring in the Geronimo Creek Watershed and Facilitation of the Geronimo and Alligator Creeks Watershed Partner
- Watershed Protection Plan Development for the Navasota River below Lake Limestone
Most WPPs in Texas have not been accepted by EPA as meeting the 9 elements. To ensure your WPP meets EPA's 9 elements, follow the EPA Region 6 Review Guide.