Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan
The goal of the Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan is to improve water quality by utilizing a voluntary, collaborative, stakeholder-driven approach. The final stakeholder-approved Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan was accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2016. Management measures, which are practices that reduce nonpoint source pollution, were suggested by stakeholders to address water quality issues in the Double Bayou Watershed.
Since the Watershed Protection Plan’s 2016 approval, numerous agricultural, wastewater, and outreach management measures, including substantial feral hog removal, have been achieved. Despite these successes, additional management measures are being pursued to protect and restore water quality in the East and West Forks of the Watershed.
The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board is funding further implementation of management measures from the Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan in the East and West Forks of Double Bayou through September 2025.
Management measures include:
- Water quality monitoring at four established locations on the East and West Forks of Double Bayou and the Anahuac Wastewater Treatment Facility
- Bacterial Source Tracking
- Stakeholder Meetings, Workshops, and Outreach
- Water Quality Management Plans
Recent Newsletter
Double Bayou Watershed Partnership Newsletter: Spring 2024
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Check out the materials from the Fall 2024 Stakeholder Meeting!
The meeting agenda, summary, and presentations are now posted under the Implementation tab (scroll down to “General Meeting Documents”).
Funding for this effort was provided through a Clean Water Act Nonpoint Source Grant administered by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Funding for this effort was provided through a grant from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality administered by the Galveston Bay Estuary Program.