Establishment of operational guidelines for Texas Coastal Zone management. Final report on water needs and residual management

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1974

OSTI ID:7212985

Sherman, J S; Malina, Jr, J F

The Water Needs and Residuals Management task force has developed a methodology for assessing, both quantitatively and qualitatively, water requirements and residual generation resulting from the activities of man in the Texas Coastal Zone.The results of the study enabled a linkage between the water use and residuals generation data and demographic and economic projections for the future resulting from alternative management policies. The area for which the methodology was tested was the thirteen county Coastal Bend Council of Governments region with particular emphasis on the Corpus Christi Bay area. Development of the methodology involved collection of data on water use patterns of municipalities, industries, and agricultural concerns; wastewater flows from municipal wastewater treatment plants, industrial return flows, and storm runoff; solid waste generation from municipalities and industries; and air emissions from automobiles and industries. These data were associated with population for municipalities and employment for industries to generate coefficients of water use and residual generation. The coefficients for industrial water use and wastewater generation were not used in the final test of the methodology because the water use and wastewater generation data did not correlate with employment. In lieu of the coefficients, a survey of major water uses and wastewater discharges was used. An analysis of the data for 1970 is included.

• Research Organization: Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Center for Research in Water Resources
• OSTI ID: 7212985
• Report Number(s): CRWR-112; EHE-74-04
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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