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Texas Clean Rivers Program 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Texas Clean Rivers Program Page | 1 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Page | 1 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Prepared by Water Monitoring Solutions, Inc. for the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District PO Box 955 · Hughes Springs, TX 75656 903-639-7538 · www.netmwd.com in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality The preparation of this report was financed through grants from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Page | 1 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Texas Clean Rivers Program 3 Water Quality Monitoring 5 Water Quality Parameters 6 Cypress Creek Basin 8 Basin Health Overview 10 CRP Coordinated Monitoring 12 Segment Review Segment 0400 - Paw Paw and Cross Bayous 14 Segment 0401 - Caddo Lake 15 Segment 0402 - Big Cypress Creek below Lake O’ the Pines 17 Segment 0403 - Lake O’ the Pines 19 Segment 0404 - Big Cypress Creek below Lake Bob Sandlin 20 Segment 0405 - Lake Cypress Springs 24 Segment 0406 - Black Bayou 26 Segment 0407 - James’ Bayou 27 Segment 0408 - Lake Bob Sandlin 29 Segment 0409 - Lile Cypress Creek 31 Other Items of Interest in the Cypress Creek Basin Caddo Lake Watershed Protecon Plan 33 Big Cypress Creek Assessment of Contact Recreaon Use Impairments and Watershed Planning for 34 Big Cypress Creek and Tributaries (Hart and Tankersley Creeks) Aquac Vegetaon in Caddo Lake 35 Environmental Flows Study 37 Fish Consumpon Bans and Advisories 37 You can become involved in the Texas Clean Rivers Program! 39 Acknowledgement 40 References 41 Page | 14 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report List of Tables Table 1: Dra potenal delisngs for the Cypress Creek Basin 11 Table 2: Dra new lisngs by segment for the Cypress Creek Basin 11 Table 3: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0401 15 Caddo Lake Table 4: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0402 17 Table 5: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0402A 18 Table 6: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0404 20 Table 7: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0405 24 Table 8: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0406 26 Table 9: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0407 27 Table 10: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0408 29 Table 11: Current non-supporng parameters and parameters of concern for Segment 0409 31 List of Figures Figure 1: Cypress Creek Basin Watersheds 4 Figure 2: Hughes Creek at SH 155 (16936) 9 Figure 3: Locaons and descripons of all 2010 sampling staons in the Cypress Creek Basin 13 Figure 4: Caddo Lake at Turtle Shell (15249) 16 Figure 5: Big Cypress Creek at Skeeter’s Marina (20635) 17 Figure 6: Lake O’ the Pines 19 Figure 7: Walkers Creek at US 271 (16454) 22 Figure 8: Franklin County Water District staff launching into Lake Cypress Springs 24 Figure 9: Big Cypress Creek at SH 37 (15260) 25 Figure 10: James’ Bayou at Cass CR 1775 (10321) 27 Figure 11: Lake Bob Sandlin 30 Figure 12: South Lilly Creek at FM 2454 (17954) 32 Figure 13: NETMWD staff collects an E. coli sample for the bacteria 35 Figure 14: Harrison Arm of Caddo Lake 36 Figure 15: Fish Consumpon Advisory sign by TDSHS 38 Figure 16: Clinton Lake (AUID 0401_05) 39 Page | 14 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Texas Clean Rivers Program The Clean Rivers Program (CRP) is a water quality monitoring, assessment, and public outreach program administered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and funded by state collected fees. The Northeast Texas Municipal Water District (NETMWD) coordinates the Clean Rivers Program for the Cypress Creek Basin. The CRP was created by the Texas Legislature in 1991 under the Texas Clean Rivers Act. The Basin Highlights Report is an annual report required under that program. The purpose of the report is to provide a concise overview of water quality condions and issues throughout the Cypress Creek Basin for the most recent 12-month period beginning September 1 and ending August 31. As a parcipant in the Texas Clean Rivers Program, NETMWD submits its annual Basin Highlights Report to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The TCEQ and CRP partners, including NETMWD, then use this report and others submied throughout the State to develop and priorize programs that will: • protect the quality of healthy waterbodies and • improve the quality of impaired waterbodies Under the Texas Clean Rivers Program, biologists and field staff collect surface water samples, field parameters and measure flow at sites throughout the Cypress Creek Basin. Other enes parcipang in the Cypress Creek Basin Clean Rivers Program include the following: Caddo Lake Instute U. S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. Northeast Texas Community College Luminant Pilgrim’s Pride Corporaon AEP SWEPCO Titus Co. Fresh Water Supply District #1 City of Marshall Texas Parks and Wildlife Department City of Longview United States Geological Survey Franklin County Water District East Texas Bapst University NETMWD contracts with Water Monitoring Soluons, Inc. to fulfill the sampling and reporng requirements of the CRP. Page | 14 2010 C C k B i Hi hli ht R t 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Major Watersheds of the Cypress Creek Basin ● Big Cypress Creek ● Black Cypress Bayou ● James/Black Bayou ● Little Cypress Creek ● Caddo Lake What is a segment? Figure 1: Cypress Creek Basin Watersheds TCEQ has divided the Cypress Creek Basin into nine classified segments. A segment is a secon of a river, creek, or stream that has relavely similar chemical, physical, and hydrological characteriscs. As the environmental agency for the State of Texas, TCEQ has determined how rivers and their tributaries are divided into segments. The data in this report are organized and presented by segment. All Cypress Creek Basin watersheds are shown on the map below, and the water quality of each segment is discussed in the Water Quality Data Review Secon of this report. Page | 14 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report 0 0 Cyp ess C ee Bas g g ts epo t Water Quality Monitoring Monitoring, data collecon, and analysis are the basis for maintaining good water quality within the Cypress Creek Basin. Within a cooperave program directed by the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District (NETMWD) these acvies are an integral part of the State’s Clean Rivers Program (CRP), which is administered by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Other enes parcipang in monitoring within the Cypress Creek Basin include the Water Monitoring Soluons, Inc. (WMS), Caddo Lake Instute (CLI), Franklin County Water District (FCWD), the City of Marshall, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), the Jeffersonian Instute, Northeast Texas Community College, and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Types of Monitoring TCEQ new Monitoring Type Codes became effecve on September 1, 2007. Sampling types are categorized below. BE Biased Event – Monitoring targeted toward a specific event (e.g., fish kill, spill) BF Biased Flow – Monitoring targeted toward certain flow condions (e.g., runoff event) BS Biased Season – Monitoring targeted toward a certain me of year (e.g., season or index period) QA Quality Assurance – QA Samples RT Roune – Monitoring not intenonally targeted toward any environmental condion or event. Addional monitoring codes for connuous data collecon can be found in the TCEQ Surface Water Quality Monitoring Data Management Reference Guide (January 2010). Page | 14 2010 Cypress Creek Basin Highlights Report Water Quality Parameters 1. Field Parameters generally include those parameters collected using a mul-parameter sonde: dissolved oxygen, conducvity, pH and temperature. Stream flow and Secchi disk depth are measured and general field observaons are recorded. These data provide informaon about the physical and chemical water quality characteriscs at the site and are used in evaluang water quality. • Dissolved Oxygen (DO) indicates the amount of oxygen available in the water. Factors such as higher water temperatures and the presence of organic materials can reduce the DO level. All aerobic aquac species require a minimum DO concentraon to survive. • pH is a measure of the acidity or basicity of a soluon. Different species of fish can tolerate a variety of pH ranges, but all fish die if the pH is below 4 (the acidity of orange juice) or above 12 (the pH of ammonia). 2. Convenonal Parameters are chemical and biological components in water that typically require laboratory analysis. These parameters generally include nutrients, bacteria, chlorophyll-a, total dissolved solids, total suspended solids, hardness, alkalinity and chlorides. • Nutrients include nitrate, nitrite, ammonia and phosphorus. High concentraons of nutrients can cause excessive algal growth, taste and odor problems in drinking water, and human health issues. When algae die, bacteria consume oxygen while decomposing it. During this process, oxygen can decrease to a level below the amount required for fish survival, resulng in the occurrence of fish kills. Elevated Ammonia concentraons adversely affect fish and invertebrate reproducve capacity and can become toxic. High levels of nitrates and nitrites can produce Nitrite Toxicity, or “brown blood disease,” in fish. This disease reduces the ability of blood to transport oxygen throughout the body. • Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) - High total dissolved solids may affect the aesthec quality of the water. High total dissolved solids in the environment can also affect the permeability of ions in aquac organisms. • Bacteria include Escherichia coli (E. coli). Although bacteria alone may not be harmful to human beings, their presence is an indicator of recent fecal maer contaminaon and that pathogens dangerous to human beings may be present.
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