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Basin Highlights Report Nueces River Basin San Antonio-Nueces Coastal Basin Highlights Report Nueces River Basin San Antonio-Nueces Coastal Basin Nueces-Rio Grande Coastal Basin March 2005 Prepared in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Clean Rivers Program i Table of Contents List of Tables .......................................................................................................................................................iii List of Appendices ...............................................................................................................................................iii List of Acronyms ..................................................................................................................................................iv Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Basin Highlights................................................................................................................................................... 2 Golden Algae Study................................................................................................................................... 2 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Study ..................................................................................................... 2 Cannons of Fort Lipantitlán........................................................................................................................ 2 Snow in South Texas................................................................................................................................. 3 Overview of Water Quality Monitoring................................................................................................................. 3 Assessments.............................................................................................................................................. 4 Water Quality Data Review ................................................................................................................................. 4 San Antonio – Nueces Coastal Basin........................................................................................................ 5 2001 Mission River Tidal.................................................................................................................. 5 2002 Mission River Above Tidal ...................................................................................................... 5 2003 Aransas River Tidal................................................................................................................. 6 2004 Aransas River Above Tidal ..................................................................................................... 6 Nueces River Basin ................................................................................................................................... 7 2101 Nueces River Tidal.................................................................................................................. 9 2102 Nueces River Below Lake Corpus Christi............................................................................... 9 2103 Lake Corpus Christi............................................................................................................... 10 2104 Nueces River Above Frio River............................................................................................. 11 2105 Nueces River Above Holland Dam ....................................................................................... 12 2106 Nueces River / Lower Frio River........................................................................................... 12 2107 Atascosa River...................................................................................................................... 13 2108 San Miguel Creek.................................................................................................................. 14 2109 Leona River........................................................................................................................... 14 2110 Lower Sabinal River.............................................................................................................. 16 2111 Upper Sabinal River.............................................................................................................. 17 2112 Upper Nueces River.............................................................................................................. 18 2113 Upper Frio River.................................................................................................................... 19 2114 Hondo Creek......................................................................................................................... 20 2115 Seco Creek ........................................................................................................................... 21 2116 Choke Canyon Reservoir...................................................................................................... 21 2117 Frio River Above Choke Canyon Reservoir.......................................................................... 23 Nueces – Rio Grande Coastal Basin....................................................................................................... 24 2201 Arroyo Colorado Tidal ........................................................................................................... 25 2202 Arroyo Colorado Above Tidal................................................................................................ 26 2202A Donna Reservoir................................................................................................................. 27 2203 Petronila Creek Tidal ............................................................................................................ 28 2204 Petronila Creek Above Tidal ................................................................................................. 28 ii Table of Contents (cont.) Bays, Estuaries, and Gulf of Mexico........................................................................................................ 30 2462 San Antonio Bay / Hynes Bay / Guadalupe Bay................................................................... 32 2463 Mesquite Bay ........................................................................................................................ 33 2471 Aransas Bay.......................................................................................................................... 34 2472 Copano Bay / Port Bay / Mission Bay................................................................................... 35 2473 St. Charles Bay ..................................................................................................................... 36 2481 Corpus Christi Bay ................................................................................................................ 36 2482 Nueces Bay........................................................................................................................... 38 2483 Redfish Bay........................................................................................................................... 39 2483A Conn Brown Harbor............................................................................................................ 40 2484 Corpus Christi Inner Harbor .................................................................................................. 40 2485 Oso Bay ................................................................................................................................ 41 2485A Oso Creek........................................................................................................................... 42 2491 Laguna Madre....................................................................................................................... 43 2492 Baffin Bay.............................................................................................................................. 45 2492A San Fernando Creek .......................................................................................................... 46 2493 South Bay.............................................................................................................................. 46 2494 Brownsville Ship Channel ..................................................................................................... 47 2494A Port Isabel Fishing Harbor.................................................................................................. 47 2501 Gulf of Mexico ....................................................................................................................... 48 Special Studies – Cameron County NPS Monitoring Project............................................................................ 49 Stakeholder Participation................................................................................................................................... 50 Public Outreach ................................................................................................................................................. 50 NRA Activities .......................................................................................................................................... 50 Nueces County Cooperative Extension ........................................................................................
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