Landowners in Anderson, Freestone, Houston, Madison, Trinity and Walker (Wyser Bluff north) counties are being sought to form a working group to assess flooding trends in their respective areas. The virtual meeting will allow participants to join by video or by phone, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 10:30 a.m.
The effort is being led by the Trinity River Authority of Texas, in partnership with the National Weather Service. The working group members, which will come from the Trinity River mid-basin area, will help facilitate discussions and actions using data and research to refine and improve the current National Weather Service flood alert levels. The group will also be involved in developing tools and messages. During the meeting, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will present the results of a joint study with TRA to look at recent flooding in the middle Trinity.
“Organizing this group is a collective step toward hearing directly from those affected and understanding environmental and other factors at play during flooding events,” noted TRA’s General Manager Kevin Ward. “We hope this group can help fill in knowledge gaps and help determine the extent of flooding under various conditions.”
Once it is formed, the Landowners Working Group will help collect and share information about flood events in their respective areas, and they will participate in focused meetings dealing with this important issue. For more information about the meeting, call Heather Firn, watershed scientist III, at 817-493-5209.
HOW TO JOIN THE VIRTUAL MEETING – WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7, 10:30 A.M.
To join using video: Sign in to the WebEx: https://trinityra.webex.com/trinityra/onstage/g.php?MTID=ece1fa7f96df48f9ca9f8a1b1d4e45800
To join by phone: Call 1-408-418-9388; use the access code: 146 618 9336, when prompted.
TRINITY RIVER AUTHORITY OF TEXAS:
The Trinity River Authority of Texas is a conservation and reclamation district that provides water from reservoir facilities, water and wastewater treatment, along with recreation and reservoir facilities within the nearly 18,000-square-mile Trinity River basin. TRA also maintains a master plan for basin-wide development, and serves as a conduit for tax-exempt financing for municipal projects and as a local sponsor for federal water projects. Each TRA operating project is an independent financial entity, and TRA receives no tax revenues or appropriations. For more information, visit www.trinityra.org.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE:
The National Weather Service is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information. It is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration branch of the Department of Commerce, and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Md., within the Washington metropolitan area. The agency was known as the United States Weather Bureau from 1890 until it adopted its current name in 1970. For more information, visit www.weather.gov.
