Current Projects

The objective of the Fort Hood Dairy Compost Project  is to Demonstrate effects of Best Management Practices utilizing composted dairy manure and grass seeding to improve soil quality  and to establish vegetation on eroded Fort Hood training areas.

Friar's Creek watershed in Temple represents an opportunity to install and demonstrate natural vegetation and wetland areas to help reduce runoff and erosion from urbanized areas.  The impact of the project will affect 68 acres along the creek.  

TEX*A*Syst is a rural well water protection program that solves problems such as contaminated wellheads, fertilizer storage, and household wastewater disposal.

Filter strips are used as a Best Management Practice to reduce Atrazine contamination of surface water.

The Fort Hood wster monitoring project evaluates Best Management Practices (BMP) installed to minimize sediment and nutrient contamination of Lake Belton and the Leon River watershed.

 A riparian buffer is land next to streams, lakes, and wetlands that is managed for perennial vegetation (grass, shrubs, and/or trees) to enhance and protect aquatic resources from adverse impacts of agricultural practices.

February 20, 2007
Dennis Hoffman, Project Leader;