Freshwater inflow to Galveston Bay

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dc.acquisition-srcen_US
dc.call-noAcc#254 - Box#2en_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorMcFarlane, R.W.en_US
dc.contributor.otheren_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T16:57:01Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T16:57:01Z
dc.date.issued1987en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description16 pgs.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractGalveston Bay is the most productive estuary in Texas. The Trinity River provides one-half of the freshwater inflow and nutrients, and a substantial aount of the sediment, which reaches Galveston Bay. The Lake Livingston dam and reservoir, to date, have not reduced tha annual river discharge to Trinity Bay but a slight seasonal shift has reduced flow from January to May while increasing flow form August to December. The frquency and duration of floods, important to transport of floodplain nutrients, has not diminished. The purposed Wallisville dam and reservoir, near the mouth of the river, will potentially divert as much as 39 percent of river discharge and entrap substantial, but unknown, quanities of sediment and nutrients, leading to higher salinities in Trinity Bay and erosion of the rivermouth delta. Sheet flow of floodwaters across the delta marshes, an important nutrient transport mechanisims, will be reduced. It is essential that a comprehensive environmental impact assessment, conducted by an independent third-party, be completes to consider the synergistic and cumulative effects of the several in-progress or proposed development projects which currently threaten the Galveston Bay ecosystem.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeGalveston Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeLake Livingstonen_US
dc.geo-codeTrinity Bayen_US
dc.geo-codeTrinity Riveren_US
dc.geo-codeWallisville Reservoiren_US
dc.history5/22/06 eas; 3/7/05 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/20330
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGBIC Archives Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeHouston, TXen_US
dc.publisherMcFarlane & Associatesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries254.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectinflowen_US
dc.subjectnutrientsen_US
dc.subjectsediment distributionen_US
dc.subjectdamsen_US
dc.subjectreservoirsen_US
dc.subjectriver dischargeen_US
dc.subjectdeltasen_US
dc.subjectecosystemsen_US
dc.titleFreshwater inflow to Galveston Bayen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issueen_US

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