Watershed Action Planning
Strategies and plans for protecting and improving the quality of the state's streams, lakes, and estuaries.
Watershed action planning (WAP) is a process for coordinating, documenting, and tracking strategies and activities to protect and improve water quality.
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What It Does
The major objectives of WAP are to:
- engage stakeholders more fully in determining strategies that restore water quality.
- improve access to state agencies’ water quality management decisions and increase transparency of decision-making.
- improve accountability of state agencies’ commitments to improve water quality.
The WAP process coordinates planning and activities among the programs of TCEQ's Water Quality Planning Division and, the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, and stakeholders at the watershed level.
Back to topAction Plan Viewer
The WAP process is designed to identify strategies for protecting streams, lakes, or estuaries and improving the quality of impaired waterways. Those strategies and special projects associated with impaired water bodies are available through the Watershed Action Plan Public Viewer, an interactive, web-based application.
Information in the viewer includes:
- impaired and special-interest water bodies.
- the recommended strategies to improve water quality in impaired segments or to protect water bodies of special interest.
- the status of each strategy.
- the lead agency and program for implementing each strategy.
See our Hydrography Data and Map-Based Viewers page for more information about the river and coastal basins in Texas and the location of specific water body segments.
History and Evolution
The WAP process was established in 2011. The first WAP strategies were developed late that same year. The WAP strategies will be updated following the release of each new Integrated Report of Surface Water Quality.
For More Information
Send us an e-mail at WAPTool@tceq.texas.gov or call us at 512-239-6682.