Bayou City W.A.T.E.R. Project

Water Chemistry Links

Wetlands act as a sponge and filter for a variety of nutrients, sediments, and pollutants.  Water that flows from uplands into tributaries, bayous, and rivers pass through wetland areas that maintain and often improve water quality by filtering out excess nutrients, sediments, and pollutants.  Wetlands also act as a buffer for non-point source runoff by reducing flow velocity.  

This is an excellent site for finding information about water quality in the City of Houston.  Learn what is tested, how often, where, and why.  Some sites of interest include:  Buffalo Bayou, White Oak Bayou, and Greens Bayou.  

Check out this site for excellent tips and links on monitoring water quality.  You can access watershed information for Texas, GIS data, join a volunteer water quality monitoring group or learn how to start your own group.  

Site allows you to search for information by watershed, water body, or zip code.  Excellent source of information.

The Houston-Galveston Area Council offers a lot of useful information on this site.  You can utilize interactive maps of the Gulf Coast area, access online databases, and even download data.  Take your time and browse this site carefully... there is a lot of useful information here!

A handy spreadsheet that details the latitude and longitude of the monitoring station, a geographic description of station location, and testing parameters.  Click here for the spreadsheet that covers basin descriptions.

Site allows you to research water supply forecast for a given area, map based climate reports and data, and even allows you to access climate analysis for wetlands via a county search. 

This is worth looking at!  Buffalo Bayou is the main tributary associated with the San Jacinto River.  You can find some good GIS maps, information on basin issues, and a regional assessment of water quality.

You can access water quality assessments for any watershed in Texas.  Excellent site.

The site for gathering real-time water data.  You can access information on reservoirs, streams, groundwater and water quality.  Make sure you check out the Daily Streamflow Conditions for Texas map.  This is great for numerical data that can be printed out in a graphical format. You can also search for archived water data for research purposes.  Excellent site!

Everything you need to know from watershed basics to funding your own watershed team.  

You can learn more about wetland water quality standards, and biological criteria.  You can also access individual state water quality standards.  Site also offers information on volunteer monitoring.  This is a very comprehensive site, so make sure that you take your time surfing through this one!