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Suspended-Sediment Load of Texas Streams TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD REPORT 106 SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOAD OF TEXAS STREAMS Compilation Report October 1963-September 1965 By H. M. Cook January 1970 TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD Mills Cox, Chairman Marvin Shurbet, Vice Chairman Robert B. Gilmore Groner A. Pitts Milton T. Potts W. E. Tinsley Howard B. Boswell, Executive Director Authorization for use or reproduction ofany material contained in this publication, i.e., not obtained from other sources, is freely granted without the necessity of securing permission therefor. The Board would appreciate acknowledgement of the source of original material so utilized. Published and distributed by the Texas Water Development Board Post Office Box 12386 Austin. Texas 78711 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION ..................................•....•.....•.....•... STATUS OF SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT SAMPLING STATIONS .......•.....•.....•..... COOPERATION .......................................•....••....••....••.. EXPLANATION OF DATA USE OF HISTORICAL SEDIMENT DEPOSITION SURVEYS ..........................••.. 2 RECORDS OF SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS FROM SAMPLING STATIONS OPERATED BY TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. 1964 AND 1965 WATER YEARS . 3 Red Aiver Basin . 5 Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River Near Lakeview 5 Sulphur River Basin 6 South Sulphur River Near Cooper . 6 Whiteoak Creek Near Talco ............•.....•....•.....•. 7 Sabine River Basin ..............................................•.....•.. 8 Sabine River at Logansport 8 Neches River Basin. ...................................................... 9 Kickapoo Creek Near Brownsboro. ..................•..................... 9 Piney Creek Near Groveton 10 Neches River Near Rockland .......................•......... ,.......... 11 Trinity River Basin. ...................................................... 12 Little Elm Creek Near Aubrey .....•.....••.........•••...•.•...••.....•. 12 Trinity River Near Rosser 13 Chambers Creek Near Corsicana 14 Long King Creek at Livingston ................•.......................... 15 Trinity River at Romayor 16 San Jacinto River Basin .................................................... 17 East Fork San Jacinto River Near Cleveland 17 iii TABLE OF CONTENTS (Cont'd.) Page Brazos River Basin . 18 California Creek Near Stamford , 18 Brazos River Near South Bend , ..........•........ 19 Possum Kingdom Reservoir Near Graford ....•............................... 20 Aquilla Creek Near Aquilla .............•..........•...........•......... 21 North Bosque River at H ieo . 22 Leon River at Gatesville . ................•.............................. 23 Yegua Creek Near Somerville 24 Navasota River Near Easterly 25 Brazos River at Richmond . 26 Colorado River Basin 27 Colorado River Near San Saba 27 Buchanan Reservoir Near Burnet 28 Llano River at Llano , ..•....... 29 Pedernales River Near Johnson City . 30 Colorado River at Austin . 31 Lavaca River Basin .. 32 Lavaca River Near Edna . ..............................................• 32 Navidad River Near Hallettsville . 33 Guadalupe River Basin . 34 Guadalupe River Near Spring Branch . 34 Guadalupe River at Victoria . .....................•...................... 35 San Antonio River Basin .... 36 Cibolo Creek Near Falls City 36 San Antonio River at Goliad . ...........................•....•.......... 37 Nueces River Basin . 38 Nueces River at Cotulla 38 Frio River at Calliham . .....................................•.......... 39 Lake Corpus Christi Near Mathis ...............................•.......... 40 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS (Cant'd.) Page RECORDS OF SUSPENDED·SEDIMENT LOADS FROM SAMPLING STATIONS OPERATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO ......................................•........ 41 Rio Grande Basin , . 43 Rio Grande at EI Paso . ................................•........................ 43 Rio Grande Below Rio Conchas Near Presidio 44 Rio Grande at Johnson Ranch Near Castalon ., . 45 Rio Grande at Langtry . 46 Pecos River Near Shumla . 47 Rio Grande Near Del Rio 48 Rio Grande at Laredo ................•.....•....•...........•....•.... 49 Rio Grande at Falcon Dam. ............................................. 50 Rio Grande at Fort Ringgold, Rio Grande City 51 Rio Grande Near Los Ebanos . 52 Rio Grande Below Anzalduas Dam . 53 Rio Grande Near San Benito . 54 Rio Grande Near Brownsville , _ ,,,....... 55 RECORDS OF SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOADS FROM SAMPLING STATIONS OPERATED BY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, QUALITY OF WATER BRANCH 57 Trinity River Basin 59 Elm Fork Trinity River Near Muenster 59 Pin Oak Creek Near Hubbard ..........•..... , ....•...........•....• , .. 60 Colorado River Basin 61 Colorado River at Columbus. ............................................ 61 FIGURE 1. Location Map Showing Suspended-Sediment Sampling Stations on Texas Streams, 1964 and 1965 Water Years .........................................••.... ,• 63 v SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT LOAD OF TEXAS STREAMS Compilation Report October 1963-September 1965 INTRODUCTION COOPERATION The following agencies cooperated with the Texas Report 106 covers the 1964 and 1965 water years, Water Development Board in the operation of, or and is a supplement to Texas Water Development Board furnished data for, suspended-sediment-sampling stations Report 45, Texas Water Commission Bulletin 6410, and included in this report: Texas Board of Water Engineers Bulletin 6108. These prior publications presented the results of suspended­ Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin; sediment-load measurements at permanent observation points from the beginning of record through the 1963 Brazos River Authority, Waco; water year. (A water year extends from October 1 through the following September 30, and is identified by City of Corpus Christi; and the year in which it ends.) No reconnaissance type determinations of short-period record or intermittent U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, record are compiled. Austin. This report was prepared under the general direc­ The International Boundary and Water Commis­ tion of C. R. Baskin, Chief Engineer, and Jack Stearman, sion, United States and Mexico, furnished records for 13 Director. Basic Hydrologic Data Division. The tabula­ stations in the Rio Grande Basin. tions in the report were prepared under the direction of Mike Parker, Director, Electronic Data Processing Divi­ The U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources sion. Maximum, minimum, and average annual sus­ Division, Austin, furnished records for two stations in pended-sediment loads were computed from historical the Trinity River Basin and one station in the Colorado data by W. A. Haydon, Sediment Section Head, Basic River Basin. Hydrologic Data Division. EXPLANATION OF DATA STATUS OF SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT SAMPLING STATIONS Suspended-sediment-sampling stations operated by the Texas Water Development Board at or near stream­ During the period covered by this report, the flow·measuring stations use streamflow records collected Texas Water Commission operated 36 suspended­ by the U.S. Geological Survey in the determination of sediment sampling stations. The Texas Water Develop­ estimated suspended-sediment loads. Those suspended­ ment Board was subsequently assigned responsibilities sediment-sampling stations operated by the Texas Water for State activity in this field of surface-water investi· Development Board at Possum Kingdom Reservoir and gations beginning September I, 1965, in the 1965 water Buchanan Reservoir, where samples are collected from year. Three stations were established and two were dis­ releases, use computed·release records furnished by the continued in the State program during this report period. reservoir operator in the determination of estimated suspended-sediment loads. Data resulting from sediment investigations for 13 stations operated by the International Boundary and Samples are collected in a-ounce narrow·neck Water Commission, United States and Mexico and three bottles at a position approximately 1 foot below the stations operated by the United States Geological Survey water surface near midstream. The percentage of sus· are included in this report. pended sediment by weight obtained from the sample is multiplied by the factor 1.102 to obtain the mean Sediment and streamflow records of the Pecos percentage of suspended sediment in the vertical profile. River and the Rio Grande were collected by the Laboratory determinations were equated to the cor­ International Boundary and Water Commission, United responding streamflow in determining the total sus­ States and Mexico_ A sediment weight of 66.7 pounds pended-sediment load. per cubic foot, or 1,452 tons per acre-foot, was used in determining suspended'sediment volume in the Rio The Texas Water Development Board uses 62.5 Grande Basin. pounds as the average weight of 1 cubic foot of streamflow. Temperature and total dissolved constit­ The U.S. Geological Survey assumes a water uents affect the density of water. The average water density of 62.4 pounds per cubic foot when suspended­ weight selected is used for all calculations. The density sediment samples contain 28,000 parts per million of sediment used for all calculations is 70 pounds per sediment or less. When higher concentrations are en­ cubic foot. It is emphasized that this implied density is countered, a sliding scale is used. Total suspended­ an estimated average which may be expected for sediment load is reported in tons. No volume conver­ ultimate consolidation. Individual sediment deposits will sions are attempted. Suspended-sediment samples
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