Houston Ship Channel & Upper Galveston Bay Stakeholder Group
A group that provides information and advice to the TMDL Program about its projects for the Houston Ship Channel and Upper Galveston Bay
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High-volume water samplers
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About the Stakeholder Group
The Houston Ship Channel TMDL Stakeholder Group advises the TCEQ’s TMDL Program on its projects to reduce dioxin and PCB concentrations in the Houston Ship Channel and the Galveston Bay System. The group has balanced representation from government, permitted facilities, agriculture, business, environmental, and community interests in the Houston Ship Channel and Galveston Bay watersheds.
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The Houston-Galveston Area Council 
is leading this group.
See more about the Dioxin Project, the PCBs Project, and the Survey of Dioxins and PCBs.
Meeting Records
Meeting documents are available in PDF.
- February 23, 2011
- Meeting Summary
- Presentation about San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund Project
- June 2010
- July 2009
- Meeting Summary
- Outline of the Draft TMDL for Dioxin
- Progress Report for the HSC–PCB TMDL (2.7 MB)
- Aerial Photos of the Channel (1.9 MB) at intervals from 1956 through 2005
- EPA Status Report on Waste Pits in the San Jacinto River Basin
- August 2008
- October 2007
- June 2007
- April 2007
- September 2006
- August 2005
- February 2005
- January 2004
- March 2003
- June 2002
- August 2001
- March 2001
- January 2001
Membership
| Name | Organization |
| Chris Barry | Harris County Pollution Control |
| Charles Beckman | Harris County Pct. 2 |
| Ronald Crabtree | City of Deer Park |
| Daya Dayananda | City of Pasadena |
| Winston Denton | Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. |
| Luke Giles | Coastal Conservation Assoc. of Texas |
| George Guillen | University of Houston–Clear Lake |
| Nicole Hausler | Port of Houston |
| Tracy Hester | Bracewell-Patterson |
| Guy Jackson | Coastal Oyster Lease Holders |
| Ed Matuszak | La Porte citizen |
| Kristy Morten | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| Gordon Pederson | Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Auth. |
| David Ramsden | Harris County Citizen |
| Gerardo Ruiz | City of Baytown |
| Jeff Stevenson | Shell Chemical |
| Bob Stokes | Galveston Bay Foundation |
| Lial Tischler | E. Harris Co. Manufacturers’ Association |
| John Westendorf | Occidental Chemical Corp. |
| Kirk Wiles | Texas Department of State Health Services |
For More Information
Please e-mail tmdl@tceq.texas.gov and reference the Houston Ship Channel Dioxin project in the subject line. Or call Jim Neece at 512-239-1524.
