Restore Little Bay
Initiative
Scientific Studies
These informational and purely scientific documents will be updated as time goes by, and we reach both minor and significant goals.
A Bacterial Source Tracking Project to Identify Sources of Fecal Pollution at Little Bay: May 2018-January 2019
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Little Bay Drainage Improvement Project Details
The following information is intended to provide a draft overview of (1) the current recreational criteria in the water quality standards, (2) the recent history of recreational criteria in Texas, (3) the status of ongoing revisions of water quality standards, and (4) options that are under consideration for recreational criteria.
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Little Bay is a small (approximately 350-acre), semi-enclosed sub-bay within the larger Aransas Bay estuary system on the Texas Gulf Coast. As an estuarine environment, its salinity (measured in parts per thousand, or ppt) fluctuates due to tidal exchange with Aransas Bay, freshwater inflows from local runoff (e.g., Tule Creek and stormwater drains), evaporation, and seasonal weather patterns.
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