County Resources

Click on your county of interest below to discover a variety of resources that will help reduce water quality issues.

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COUNTY DIRECTORY

The following directory shares a list of counties within the Texas Coastal Zone that have completed or in progress Watershed Protection Plans (WPPs) as well as counties with completed or in progress Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Programs. Both WPP and TMDL Programs help prevent or manage nonpoint source pollution to improve water quality in rivers, lakes, and estuaries in across Texas.

ORANGE

• Orange County Watersheds: A TMDL Project to Protect Aquatic Life and Recreational Uses

JEFFERSON

CHAMBERS

• Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan
• Upper Texas Gulf Coast: A Project for Bacteria in Oyster Waters
• Cedar Bayou Watershed Protection Plan

HARRIS

• Houston-Galveston Region: Implementation Plan and TMDLs
• Upper Texas Gulf Coast: A Project for Bacteria in Oyster Waters
• Cedar Bayou Watershed Protection Plan

GALVESTON

• Houston-Galveston Region: Implementation Plan and TMDLs
• Upper Texas Gulf Coast: A Project for Bacteria in Oyster Waters
• Highland Bayou Watershed Protection Plan
• Dickinson Bayou: Implementing a Plan to Protect Recreational Uses

BRAZORIA

• Upper Texas Gulf Coast: A Project for Bacteria in Oyster Waters
• Bastrop Bayou Watershed Protection Plan
• San Bernard River Watershed Protection Plan
• Chocolate Bayou: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

MATAGORDA

• Tres Palacios Watershed Protection Plan
• Lavaca Watershed Protection Plan
• Tres Palacios Creek: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

JACKSON

• Lavaca Watershed Protection Plan
• Carancahua Bay: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

VICTORIA

• Lower San Antonio River: A Community TMDL Project to Protect Recreational Uses

CALHOUN

• Carancahua Bay: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

REFUGIO

• Lower San Antonio River: A Community TMDL Project to Protect Recreational Uses
• Mission and Aransas Rivers: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

ARANSAS

• Mission and Aransas Rivers: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

SAN PATRICIO

• Nueces Bay: A TMDL Project for Zinc
• Mission and Aransas Rivers: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses

NUECES

• Nueces Bay: A TMDL Project for Zinc
• Corpus Christi Beaches: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
• Oso Bay: A Community Project to Protect Recreational Uses
• Petronila Creek: Implementing a Plan to Improve Water Quality

KLEBERG

• Petronila Creek: Implementing a Plan to Improve Water Quality

KENEDY

WILLACY

CAMERON

• Arroyo Colorado Watershed Protection Plan
• Lower Laguna Madre: Watershed Protection Plan (South)