Scientific Reports

The BSEACD Trinity Aquifer Sustainability Model: A Tool for Evaluating Sustainable Yield of the Trinity Aquifer in Hays County, Texas

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Source: BSEACD
Format: Report of Investigations
Year: 2023

View the executive summary here.   The Trinity Aquifer in Hays County is an important groundwater resource which is the only available source of drinking water to people living in central and western Hays County, and is the source of ecologically, culturally, and economically important springs within the Blanco River Basin. Pumping has increased in…

Estimating the number of Trinity Aquifer exempt wells in a recently annexed groundwater conservation district territory

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Source: Robin Gary, Brian Hunt, and Lane Cockrell
Format: Abstract
Year: 2019

In 2015, the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (District) annexed the eastern portion of Hays County coincident with the Edwards Aquifer Authority boundary to extend groundwater protection and management to the previously unregulated Trinity and other non-Edwards aquifers. To estimate Trinity Aquifer pumpage, first the number of Trinity Aquifer wells needed to be identified. High-volume…

Blanco River Aquifer Assessment Tool A Tool to Assess How the Blanco River Interacts With Its Aquifers: Creating the Conceptual Model

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Source: Meadows Center
Format: Report
Year: 2019

The Blanco River watershed spans five counties through the Texas Hill Country and supplies water to some of the fastest growing population centers in Texas, if not the country (Figure ES – 1). Over this reach, the Blanco River is both fed by and feeds the Trinity and Edwards aquifers, blurring the line between groundwater…

Barton Springs segment of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer, central Texas

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Source: GSA
Format: Paper
Year: 2019

The Barton Springs segment of the Edwards (Balcones Fault Zone) Aquifer is a prolifi c karst aquifer system containing the fourth largest spring in Texas, Barton Springs. The Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer supplies drinking water for ~60,000 people, provides habitat for federally listed endangered salamanders, and sustains the iconic recreational Barton Springs…

Cover-Collapse Sinkhole Development in the Cretaceous Edwards Limestone, Central Texas

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Source: STGS
Format: Paper
Year: 2017

Sudden cover-collapse sinkhole (doline) development is uncommon in the karstic Cretaceous-age Edwards limestone of central Texas. This paper presents a case-study of a sinkhole that formed within a stormwater retention pond (SWRP) in southwest Austin. Results presented include hydrogeologic characterizations, fate of stormwater, and mitigation of the sinkhole. On January 24, 2012, a 11 cm…

Evaluation of Sustainable Yield of the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Hays and Travis Counties, Central Texas

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Source: BSEACD
Format: Report
Year: 2004

Sustainable Yield Studies of the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer

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Source: Edwards Symposium
Format: Extended Abstract
Year: 2004

Groundwater Availability during Drought Conditions in the Edwards Aquifer, Hays and Travis Counties, Texas

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Source: GCAGS
Format: Paper
Year: 2004

Ground-Water Availability Modeling of the Three Major Segments of the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas

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Source: NGWA
Format: Poster
Year: 2005