ANAHUAC - The Double Bayou Watershed Partnership has announced the opening of the formal public comment period for the draft Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan (WPP). The public comment period for the draft plan will be January 27 through February 26, 2016. To facilitate public comment, the Double Bayou Watershed Partnership project staff will be available at the Anahuac Branch of the Chambers County Library, located at 202 Cummings Street in Anahuac, on Thursday, February 11, 2016, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The draft WPP is available online at http://www.doublebayou.org/wpp-document/. Hard copies can be made available upon request if desired; contact Stephanie Glenn (contact information below) to request a printed copy.
People may stop in on February 11 to give their comments in person, or submit to Stephanie Glenn by email at sglenn [at] harcresearch [dot] org, or by U.S. mail to:
Stephanie Glenn
Houston Advanced Research Center
4800 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77381
Since May 2013, stakeholders in the Double Bayou watershed have met to discuss specific topics and how they affect the watershed. The watershed protection planning process is a voluntary, stakeholder-driven process designed to generate information, ideas, and solutions from within the watershed. The draft WPP will serve as a plan to guide voluntary implementation efforts to improve water quality.
"The hard work of the local stakeholders has produced the draft Double Bayou Watershed Protection Plan," said Stephanie Glenn, Program Director of Hydrology and Watersheds at HARC. "Everyone is excited to take this next step forward and invite public comments on the Plan."
Visit the Double Bayou Watershed Partnership website at http://www.doublebayou.org/ for more information and to find meeting notes from previous meetings, as well as other documents that give more background on the project.
Funding for the development of the Double Bayou WPP was provided through a Clean Water Act §319(h) grant from the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.