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Item The Clear Creek Basin study.(1964) Engineers of the Southwest; Southwest Research Institute; Alexander Potter Associates;The announcement in September 1961 that the nerve center of the massive program of space exploration by this country was to be located on the shores of Clear Lake in Harris County, Texas, signaled the start of one of the most remarkable programs of industrial, commercial, and residential land development ever undertaken. No sooner had the significance of this announcement been realized than a number of independent developers, large and small, began planning for the construction of facilities to serve the population and the space-oriented industries which would inevitably gravitate to the Clear Lake area, in support of the Government's aerospace program. The focal point of all this planning was Clear Lake. This lake is a small, attractive body of water at the mouth of Clear Creek, closely connected with Galveston Bay. The opportunities for recation, the protected small-boat harbor afforded, and the ready access to Galveston Bay, place the perimenter of Clear Lake, and several miles of the creek banks, greatly in demand for residential development oriented to boating and water sports. It was no wonder, then, that the many advantages of gracious living at the lake's edge figures prominently in the advertisiing and promotional programs of the many developers of homes and homesites in the Clear Creek Basin. As this space program boom increased its space, the more serious, public-health-minded citizens in the Basin began to consider the end effects of the sudden urbanization on future water quality in Clear Creek and Clear Lake. They called upon the newly-created Texas Water Pollution Control Board for advice and guidance, and in July 1963 the Board called for a public hearing in nearby Webster. Statement by citizens of the Basin at that hearing clearly reaffirmed their determination that Clear Lake and Clear Creek remain clear and clean not only to preserve recreational values, but more important, to prevent the decline of property values which would inevitably result from the continued pollution of these waters. They agreed to underwrite the cost of studies to define the nature and extent of the problem and to suggest economic and technical solutions. This report presents the results of these studies. It is the first step in solving the Clear Creek Basin pollution problem.Item Interim Report III Service Area Delineation(Coastal Bend Council of Governments, 1977-09) Urban Engineering; University of Texas Marine Science Institute; Southwest Research Institute; Coastal Bend Council of GovernmentsInterim Report III, "Service Area Delineation for Wastewater Treatment Systems" is one of eleven outputs which must undergo a thorough local review plus a public hearing before it can be submitted to the State for certification. If certified by the Governor, the document can be submitted to the funding agency, the Environmental Protection Agency for final review. The report was prepared by consultants for the Coastal Bend Council of Governmments. It described the existing wastewater collection and treatment facilities in the 208 study area. The purpose in documenting the existing system components was to have a point of departure should expansions or modification by necessary. The maps at the end of this report illustrate the major system components and discharge points. A reduced versionof the area in question is presented first. Then a series of enlargements follow depicting on a larger scale the communities shown on the reduced version.Item Interim Report IV Projected Waste Loads and Flows(Coastal Bend Council of Governments, 1977-09) Urban Engineering; University of Texas Marine Science Institute; Southwest Research Institute; Coastal Bend Council of GovernmentsThis report is one of eleven "interim reports" issued by the Coastal Bend Council of Governments pursuant to Environmental Protection Agency requirements under Section 208 of Public Law 92-500. The report was drafted by the CBCOG with input from many sources, including public interest committees and professional consultants. The report was subjected to a public hearing before being finalized for submission to the Texas Water Quality Board and the EPA. Material is drawn principally from three of the project "tasks" prepared by the CBCOG staff and three consultants. The consultants participating in this phase of the project are the Marine Science Institute of Port Aransas and Southwest Research Institute and Urban Engineering of Corpus Christi. The principal "tasks" used for input are known as Task 2.6 (Inventory Existing Point Sources), Task 2.7 (Inventory Intermittent Point Sources), and Task 2.8 (Projected Waste Loads).Item Interim Report V Alternative Control Strategies for Point and Nonpoint Discharges - DRAFT(Coastal Bend Council of Governments, 1977-10) University of Texas Marine Science Institute; Southwest Research Institute; Urban Engineering; Coastal Bend Council of GovernmentsInterim Report V is one of the eleven major reports to be prepared within the Corpus Christi "208" study area. It is a major program output in that a specific review and comment process is to be followed before state certification can be given the document. Following state certification, these special outputs can be forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency for final review. Citizen participation is a critical phase of the local review process. "Alternate Control Strategies for Point and Nonpoint Discharges" is a composite of information from several earlier task outputs. Each chapter in this document addresses a project output that has a special linkage to the proposed alternative control strategies, (Chapter 6). Not all of the information compiled or prepared during individual task efforts is presented in the following chapters, only summaries are provided except in Chapter 6 which is presented in a more complete documentation of Tasks 2.9 and 2.25 which generated "alternative systems configurations" and "defined technical subplans" respectively. The reader must refer to individual task outputs for more detailed information about a particular subject. The purpose of this report is to present alternative technical solutions to identified water quality management problems. The costs, environmental effects, and system characteristics for each technical proposal, by water segment, are derived in the following chapters. The report outline followed in preparing this document is defined in the approved "Detailed Work Program for the Corpus Christi Areawide Waste Treatment Planning Program", (Appendix E).