Status and Activities: Implementing the TMDL for Gilleland Creek

Status

The TCEQ coordinates follow-up meetings, providing opportunities for stakeholders to report on progress and changes in the watershed.

• 2020, Third Year Implementing Revised Plan
  
  •  Meeting Summary
  •  Status Summary 
  •  Watershed Map, April 2021 
  •  Assessment Units and Geomeans from the Texas Integrated Report 
  •  Chart of Geomeans at All Sites over Time 
  •  Follow-up on Action Items 
• 2019, Second Year Implementing Revised Plan
  
  •  Meeting Summary 
  •  Status Summary 
  •  Watershed Map, April 2020 
  •  Assessment Units and Geomeans from the Texas Integrated Report 
  •  Chart of Geomeans over Time 
• 2018, First Year Implementing Revised I-Plan
•  2018 Status Summary 
•  Assessment Units and Geomeans from the Texas Integrated Report 
• 2016 and 2017
• Stakeholders worked from fall of 2016 through November 2017 to revise the Implementation Plan. See the revised plan on the webpage Total Maximum Daily Load and Implementation Plan. Progress on their original plan is summarized in the Revised Implementation Plan.
• 2015, Fifth Year Implementing the Plan
•   Year Five Summary Presentation
•  Meeting Summary
• 2014, Fourth Year Implementing the Plan
•  Year Four: Status Summary
•  NPS Stormwater Retrofit Final Report
• 2013, Third Year Implementing the Plan
•  Year Three: Status Summary
•  Year Three Summary Presentation
• 2012, Second Year Implementing the Plan
  •  Year Two: Status Summary
  •  Year 2 Summary Presentation
• 2011, First Year Implementing the Plan
  •  Year One: Status Summary
  •  Year One Summary Presentation

Activities

Volunteers in the Colorado River Watch Network monitor several sites in the city of Pflugerville

Gilleland Creek Stormwater Retrofit, 2014
The University of Texas modified a stormwater retention basin with the goal of reducing targeted pollutants by 50%. See photos of the basins.

In 2013, the Austin City Council passed a comprehensive overhaul of the city's Watershed Protection Ordinance . At the core of the ordinance are three interrelated changes: better stream buffers, improved floodplain protections, and new erosion hazard provisions. The ordinance extends creek buffers—setbacks to ensure that development is not built too close to waterways—for over 400 miles of smaller “headwaters” streams.

On August 14, 2012, the Travis County Commissioners’ Court approved requirements to establish stream setbacks applicable to development in all unincorporated areas of the watershed.

Contact the TMDL Program

Please e-mail tmdl@tceq.texas.gov, and mention the Gilleland Creek bacteria project in the subject line. Or call us at 512-239-6682.

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