Featured Videos
A 3-part video series about water quality challenges and solutions in the rapidly growing Texas Coastal Zone.
Our Texas Coast & Water Quality: The Situation
Click here to watch part 1.
Our Texas Coast & Water Quality: Problems, Threats, & Challenges
Click here to watch part 2.
Our Texas Coast & Water Quality: The Solution
Click here to watch part 3.
Featured Resources
Technical Manual: Guidance for Sustainable Stormwater Drainage
A guidance manual with stormwater management practices for use by government agencies, businesses, and the general public.
Resident's Handbook: Coastal Water Protection Begins With You
Find practices that local residents can adopt to reduce the impact of stormwater runoff and manage water usage from their own properties.
Technical Manual: Guidance for Roads, Highways, and Bridges
A guidance manual that provides Texas Coastal communities with tools to reduce nonpoint source pollution and manage stormwater runoff from roads, highways, and bridges.
Technical Manual: Dune Protection and Improvement for the Texas Coast
A guidance manual with measures that landowners, city and county planners, developers, and industry can use to preserve sand dunes and promote dune restoration.
Flyer: Clean Coast Texas Menu of Services
Learn how we can work with your coastal community to facilitate non-regulatory, incentive-based programs and projects to protect and restore water quality, habitat, and shorelines.
Community Resource: Clean Coast Texas Funding Guide
A guide for coastal communities detailing state and federal funding opportunities to support projects for protecting and enhancing water quality and stormwater management on the Texas coast.
Interactive Readers and Maps
Water Protection Begins with You
We all have a part to play in our water quality. Learn how simple changes in landscaping design, waste disposal, and septic system maintenance can make a huge difference downstream.
Striving for Resilience
Protecting our water resources from the impacts of nonpoint source pollution is a complex challenge. Learn the basics of stormwater runoff and its impact on the Texas Coastal Zone.
Get to Know Your Coastal Zone
The Texas Coastal Zone is home to a wealth of natural resources – from winding rivers to sandy beaches – all of which are enjoyed by a booming population.