Texas Water Code, Section 26.406 requires the annual report to
describe the current status of groundwater monitoring activities
conducted or required by each agency at regulated facilities or
associated with regulated activities. The report is required to
contain a description of each case of groundwater contamination
documented during the previous calendar year. Also to be included,
is a description of each case of contamination documented during
previous periods for which voluntary clean up action was incomplete
at the time the preceding report was issued. The report is also
required to indicate the status of enforcement action for each
listed case.
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Users Guide
The report is divided into two sections. The first section,
Groundwater Protection Program Descriptions, provides a narrative,
program-specific overview for each contributing agency or
organization. The second section, Groundwater Contamination Case
Descriptions, contains a tabular listing of individual
contamination cases which were documented for calendar year 2005.
For more information see page 31 of the report below.
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Using the Contamination Case Description Tables
Case descriptions are presented in a tabular format for
contributing agencies with enforcement authority over current
groundwater contamination cases.
The first page of each agency's table contains a legend of the
column headings and a brief description of each heading. The legend
describes attributes that may be unique to that particular table;
however, some of the heading descriptions are common to all agency
tables.
To find a specific contamination case, locate the county of
interest on the bookmark of the adobe file. All contamination cases
are bookmarked by county names which are listed alphabetically in
tables. By clicking on the Groundwater Contamination Description by
County, the page will take you to the first listed contamination
case for that particular county. All documented contamination cases
for that county are listed under the respective division or
regulatory program heading that has jurisdiction over that case.
Under each division heading, contamination case descriptions are
listed in alphabetical order according to file names. A location
reference is provided in the tables and can be used to locate a
specific case if the file name is unknown.
The Joint Groundwater Monitoring and Contamination Report
Because this is a large document, it has been broken up into
three Portable Document Format (PDF) files to aid in downloading.
(Help with PDF.)
Part
1 - Body of Report (Pages 1-84)
Part
2 - Groundwater Contamination Case from TCEQ (Table 1)
Part
3 - Contamination Cases from Railroad Commission of Texas,
Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts, Department of State Health
Services, and Historical Groundwater Contamination-All Agencies
(Tables 2-4), plus Appendixes.
Tips for Searching the Joint Groundwater Monitoring and
Contamination Report
Instead of scrolling through the document you can use the "find"
or "bookmark" feature in adobe to find specific case information.
Since the Agency Tables are split between two documents, don't
forget to run the search in both documents.
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Requesting Information
After locating the file number and the division or regulatory
program heading for the agency, you may file an open records
request to obtain additional information related to the case.
Contacts for the agencies and districts are located in Appendix 7
of the report. Central Records locations for the agencies are
located in Appendix 8.
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