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Daily Average Discharge (cfs) 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 West Fork Trinity River at Grand Prairie (08049500) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Month Figure 12. Monthly median, interquartile range (boxes), extended range (1.5 X quartile = line) and outliers (*) for daily average flows recorded at the USGS Elm Fork Trinity near Carrollton (08055500) gage from 1907 through 2008. Daily Difference in Flow (cfs) 100 50 0 -50 -100 West Fork Trinity River at Grand Prairie (08049500) 95% CI for the Mean 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Month Figure 13. Monthly mean and 95% confidence intervals for daily difference in average daily flows between successive dates recorded at the West Fork Trinity River at Grand Prairie (08049500) gage from 1926 through 2008. 45 Environmental Institute of Houston November 17, 2009 Trinity River Basin Biological Overlay 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 11 12 12
Flow Rate (cfs) 150,000 140,000 130,000 120,000 110,000 100,000 90,000 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Trinity River at Dallas 08057000 Daily Data (1904-2008) 0 1/1/1904 4/1/1908 1/1/1913 9/1/1917 5/1/1922 1/1/1927 8/1/1931 4/1/1936 1/1/1941 9/1/1945 4/9/1950 1/1/1955 8/1/1959 4/1/1964 1/1/1969 9/1/1973 4/7/1978 1/1/1983 8/1/1987 4/1/1992 1/1/1997 9/1/2001 4/4/2006 Figure 14. Average daily flows recorded at the USGS Trinity River at Dallas (08057000) gage from 1904 through 2008. Daily Average Discharge (cfs) 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 1 2 Trinity River at Dallas (08057000) 95% CI for the Mean 3 4 5 6 7 Month Figure 15. Monthly mean and 95% confidence intervals for daily average flow recorded at the USGS Trinity River at Dallas (08057000) gage from 1904 through 2008. 46 Environmental Institute of Houston Trinity River Basin November 17, 2009 Biological Overlay 8 9 10 11 12
Page 1 and 2: Ecological Overlay for the Trinity
Page 3 and 4: Alligator Gar .....................
Page 5 and 6: List of Figures Figure 1. Distribut
Page 7 and 8: Figure 40. Long terms trends in dis
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Page 17 and 18: Background Senate Bill 3 (SB 3), pa
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Page 21 and 22: Methodology Hydrology Summary In or
Page 23 and 24: Figure 2. Distribution of USGS prio
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Page 27 and 28: We also provided estimates of draft
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Page 37 and 38: Freshwater mussels represent a uniq
Page 39 and 40: Results Hydrology Summary Graphical
Page 41 and 42: Figure 7. Monthly mean and 95% conf
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Page 61 and 62: Table 8. Preliminary list of 7Q2 es
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Page 71 and 72: D.O. (mg/L) Grand Prairie Instantan
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Page 77 and 78: Temp. deg C Rosser Instantaneous Di
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Page 85 and 86: Trinity River at Trinidad (08062700
Page 87 and 88: Temp. deg C Trinidad Instantaneous
Page 89 and 90: D.O. mg/L Trinidad Instantaneous Di
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Page 93 and 94: Phosphate unfltrd mg/L 12.5 10.0 7.
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Temp. deg C USGS Gage at Crockett I
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USGS Gage at Crockett Instantaneous
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NO3 + NO2 unflt rd mg/ L as N 8 7 6
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Phosphate unfltrd mg/L 4 3 2 1 0 0
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Trinity River at Romayor (08066500)
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cfs 20000 15000 10000 5000 Annual M
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Temp. ( C ) Romayor Instantaneous D
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D.O. (mg/L) Romayor Instantaneous D
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USGS Gage at Romayor Instantaneous
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USGS Gage at Romayor Instantaneous
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Loading estimates for total nitroge
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TSS (mg/l) 250 200 150 100 50 0 080
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Suspended solids and associated tur
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The USGS conducted fish-community s
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Figure 135. Discharge and differenc
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Figure 136. Historical Estimates of
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Figure 139. Comparisons between tot
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Figure 143. Location of geomorpholo
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(Phillips 2008) defined these zones
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A strongly meandering channel in a
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Bay estuary, and Galveston bay. Som
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above the estuary. The capacity of
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Figure 145. Location of published a
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Figure 147. Numbers of fish taxa re
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Estimated River Mile 600 500 400 30
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substratum and nest spawners. The f
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Table 11. Original fish community g
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Table 12. Suggested changes and del
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Similarity Fish Guilds Based on Clu
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Table 13. Continued. SPECIES COMMON
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Table 13. Continued. SPECIES COMMON
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Flow (cfs) 20 15 10 5 0 0 Distribut
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Year of Collection 2010 2000 1990 1
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Figure 159. Spatial distribution of
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Largemouth bass are found in lakes,
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Figure 165. Largemouth bass (backwa
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A habitat suitability index (HSI) m
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Percina sciera (dusky darter) Based
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Figure 171. Frequency distribution
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Figure 173. Conceptual structure fo
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Table 14. Summary of life history r
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Figure 174. Conceptual structure fo
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Figure 176. Smallmouth buffalo (flo
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Table 15. Example of habitat Guilds
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average chlorophyll-a levels are fl
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Appendix 1. Listing of Primary Lite
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Priegel, G.R. 1967b. The freshwater
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Goldstein, R.M., and T.P. Simon. 19
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Suttkus, R.D. 1963. Order Lepisoste
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Perry W. G., Jr., and D. C. Carver.
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Hildebrand S. F. and I. L. Towers.
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White Bass Balon, E. K. 1981. Addit
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Blackspot Shiner Bean, P.T., C.S. W
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Evans, J.W., and R.L. Noble. 1979.
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Paddlefish Alexander, C.M., and T.A
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Pitman, V.M. 1992. Texas Paddlefish
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Literature Cited Abbott, J. C. 2006
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Clingenpeel, G. 2002. Trinity Basin
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Houston Advanced Research Center. 2
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Longley, W. L., editor. 1994. Fresh
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Simon, T. P. 1999b. Introduction: B
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