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Instream Flows
April 1, 2016
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Brackenridge Park
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Map
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SAWS Reuse Water
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Dos Rios Discharge at Brackenridge Park
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Permit Limit = 10 mg/l
Graph Courtesy of San Antonio Water Systems
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Erosion Over Sidewalk
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Bridge Stops Some of the Floating Debris
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Floating Debris
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Lower San Antonio River Instream Flows Project
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Senate Bill 2
Goal – Conduct Scientific and Engineering Studies to Determine Flow Regimes (both Water Quality , Quantity and Timing) Necessary to Support a Sound Ecological Environment
Established the Instream Flows Program
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Multi-Agency Team
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Multi-Discipline Approach
Hydrology and Hydraulics
Biology
Physical Processes
Water Quality
Connectivity
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Stakeholder ProcessStakeholders are a critical component of the Texas Instream Flows Program.
Stakeholder meetings held 2008
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Flow Recommendations
Integrated Approach
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Flow Recommendations
Subsistence flows
Base flows (dry, average and wet)
High pulse flows
Over bank flow
Seasonal component
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Lower San Antonio River and Cibolo Creek Instream Flow Study
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Upcoming Stakeholder Process
We have: •Data•Analysis •Modeling
We need: •You!
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Please Save the Date
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Thursday, October 27, 2016or
Friday, October 28, 2016Location: TBD
Time: TBD(one will be an evening and one will be
daytime)
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Environmental Flows
Amount of water that should remain in stream or river for benefit of environment, bay, & estuary while balancing human needs.House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 3 – manage and preserve water resources of state and protect instream and freshwater inflows.Developed Environmental Flows Advisory Group and Science Advisory Committee
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Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission, & Aransas Rivers and Mission, Copano, Aransas, & San Antonio Bays Basin & Bay Expert Science Team (BBEST)
Blanco River @ Wimberley, TX
Plum Creek near Luling, TX
Guadalupe River @ Cuero, TX
Sandies Creek near Westhoff, TX
Guadalupe River @ Victoria, TX
Guadalupe River near Spring Branch, TX
Medina River @ San Antonio, TX
San Antonio River near Falls City, TX
Cibolo Creek near Falls City, TX
Mission River @ Refugio, TX
San Antonio River @ Goliad, TX
San Marcos River @ Luling, TX
San Antonio River near Elmendorf, TX
Medina River @ Bandera, TX
Guadalupe River @ Comfort, TX
Guadalupe River @ Gonzales, TX
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GSA BBASC Recommendations
Subsistence
Flows (cfs)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Qp: 1,410 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 11,400
Duration Bound is 13
746591 591
400 400
Base Flows
(cfs)
791
Overbank
Flows
Qp: 36,700 cfs with Average Frequency 1 per 5 years
Regressed Volume is 492,000
Duration Bound is 70
Qp: 24,400 cfs with Average Frequency 1 per 2 years
Regressed Volume is 306,000
Duration Bound is 57
Qp: 14,300 cfs with Average Frequency 1 per year
Regressed Volume is 165,000
Duration Bound is 43
High Flow
Pulses
Qp: 4,140 cfs with Average
Frequency 1 per season
Regressed Volume is 48,300
Duration Bound is 29
Qp: 6,590 cfs with Average
Frequency 1 per season
Regressed Volume is 58,400
Duration Bound is 24
727
796
Qp: 1,760 cfs with Average
Frequency 1 per season
Regressed Volume is 14,800
Duration Bound is 14
Qp: 4,330 cfs with Average
Frequency 1 per season
Regressed Volume is 41,200
Duration Bound is 23
Qp: 1,150 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 9,640
Duration Bound is 13
Qp: 3,250 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 26,900
Duration Bound is 17
Qp: 950 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 7,060
Duration Bound is 10
210 210 210
Summer FallWinter Spring
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TCEQ Environmental Flow Standards
Subsistence
Flows (cfs)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
210 210 210
Summer FallWinter Spring
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Base Flows
(cfs)
High Flow
Pulses
796
Qp: 1,150 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 9,640
Duration Bound is 13
Qp: 3,250 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 26,900
Duration Bound is 17
Qp: 1,760 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 14,800
Duration Bound is 14
Qp: 1,410 cfs with Average
Frequency 2 per season
Regressed Volume is 11,400
Duration Bound is 13
746791 727
1) Hardy Base flow adjustment.2) 50% Rule between Base and Subsistence.3) Pulse Exemption Rule.
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TCEQ Environmental Flow Standards for SARB
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Mid-Basin Surface Water Project
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Lower Basin New Appropriation
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Mid-Basin Project Firm Yield
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TCEQ Standards
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Next Steps
TCEQ implementing Environmental Flow Standards on new/amended water rights.
SARA continues to fund and support scientific studies to refine numbers appropriate for instream and environmental flows.
Revisions to standards made in ten years from adoption. (2022)
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Questions
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