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Bastrop County Environmental Council
Water Conservation Reports: With Texas’ protracted drought, the
projected transfer of drinking water across watersheds is promising to
become BCEN’s next major battle. We intend to produce a white paper (or
more likely, as series of papers and presentations) on the current state
of aquifers and surface water resources in the county, an analysis of projections
for urban water demand in cities desiring this water, and recommendations
for citizen and governmental actions necessary to ensure sustainable (or
at least the longest possible) use of these resources.
Cumulative expense to BCEN for the first year of owning the proto-GIS
is roughly $4954, which is about what we have been able to generate in
the past from an entire year’s worth of fund-raising events.
Our call for volunteers to help get us going with GIS has been answered by
some nice folks. An aide from the Texas Legislative Council helped us to
understand our way into the TIGER census data (Enclosure 3). Several other
people working in state agencies with geographic interests may be able
to help us get data. A GPS software inventor living the county can help
us when we get the equipment necessary to use his expertise. Most recently
a young woman getting her Geography/Biology M. A. from Southwest Texas
State University (SWTU in San Marcos) contacted us about Houston toad studies
in the county. Under contract with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
in Austin, she and one of her professors produced land use, vegetation,
and soils coverages for the endangered Houston toad habitat in Bastrop
and adjacent counties.
Text and graphics: Bastrop County Environmental Council
January 2, 1997
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