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Request for Water Upper Sabine Basin Water Supply Study (March, 2003) Comprehensive Sabine Watershed Management Plan (December, 1999) Texas State Water Plans

Water has become a critical resource in Texas. Surface water is one of two main sources of water in the State. Surface waters are defined as the ordinary flow and tides of every flowing river, natural stream and lake.

The Sabine River Authority of Texas currently supplies water for municipal, industrial and agricultural purposes. The Sabine River Authority of Texas was created by the Legislature in 1949 as an official agency of the State of Texas to act as a conservation and reclamation district with responsibilities to control, store, preserve, and distribute the waters of the Sabine River and its tributary streams for useful purposes. The boundaries established by the Act of the Legislature comprise all of the area lying within the watershed of the Sabine River and its tributary streams within the State of Texas. The watershed area includes all of parts of twenty-one counties. 

Request for Water

For specific details on water availability, contact the Sabine River Authority of Texas:

Upper Sabine Basin Water Supply Study (March, 2003)

In May 2002, the Sabine River Authority of Texas (SRA) authorized Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (KBR) to update and expand investigations of various methods and costs for independently supplying future water needs for SRA customers in the Upper Sabine Basin. This report, the Upper Sabine Basin Water Supply Study (March 2003), documents the analysis of SRA demands in the Upper Basin and summarizes the alternative supply strategies that were investigated for meeting those demands through year 2050.

To view or download the report, access USBWSS.

Comprehensive Sabine Watershed Management Program (December, 1999)

The Sabine River Authority of Texas (SRA) has completed the Comprehensive Sabine Watershed Management Plan (CSWMP) for the Sabine River Basin, Texas (December, 1999). The previous update of SRA's Master Plan was completed in 1985. Since that time, many changes have occurred such as the inability to construct the proposed Waters Bluff Reservoir to meet the water needs of the upper Sabine Basin. Although many of the traditional and standard components of the 1985 Master Plan were included and updated in this study effort, all water supply alternatives were also examined and which entailed inclusion of study items not included in past planning efforts such as aquifer storage and recovery and wastewater treatment and reuse.

To view or download the report, access CSWMP.

Texas State Water Plans

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) has prepared a grassroots water plan, that if implemented will meet the needs of all Texans, even during conditions of drought. Water for Texas 2002 (Draft - October 2001) is the first State Water Plan to be developed by TWDB since the passage of Senate Bill 1 (SB-1) during the 1997 Texas Legislature.

One of the primary elements of SB-1 changes the planning process to one based on public participation at each step of the planning and local decision making when producing regional water plans-plans that then form the basis of the State Water Plan. The Planning Groups, initially appointed by TWDB, worked for more than three years to develop their 16 regional plans. The 2002 State Water Plan incorporates the approved regional water plans and highlights broad conclusions from these plans that tie them together with some common threads and links them to key policy issues. These issues may require further legislative or regulatory action.

Regional Planning Water for Texas 2000 (Draft - October 2001)

See Also

• SRA Economic Development Services
• WAM: Water Availability Modeling
• Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plans