GENERAL DOCUMENTS

Texas Instream Flow Studies: Draft Technical Overview. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Texas Water Development Board, 2008

Handbook for Revision of Water Control Plans to Improve Environmental Flows Below Dams Operated by the USACE. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2007

A Collaborative and Adaptive Process for Developing Environmental Flow Recommendations. Richter, B.D., Andrew T. Warner, Judy L. Meyer, and Kim Lutz, 2006

The Science of Instream Flows: A Review of the Texas Instream Flow Program, The National Academy of Sciences, 2005

General information about the new environmental flow allocation process (Senate Bill 3 process) can be found on the Texas Living Waters website.

HISTORIC STUDIES

A Biological, Physical, and Chemical Survey of a Least-Impacted Watershed: Black Cypress Bayou (Creek), Texas, 1998-2005. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 2005

Cypress Valley Watershed Reconnaissance Report. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1995

• Cover, Table of Contents, Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Appendix A: A Summer-Fall Ecological Reconnaissance of the Big Cypress Bayou Watershed, 1995
• Appendix B: Hydrology and Hydraulics, 1998
• Appendix C: Economics, 1998
• Appendices D and E: Economic Development and Real Estate, 1998
• Appendices F and G: Civil Design and Geotechnical and Environmental Resources, 1998
• Appendices H and I: Water Quality and Cultural (Historical) Resources, 1998
• Appendix J: A Characterization of Habitats and Fish and Wildlife Management Opportunities at Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas and Louisiana. Cloud, Thomas, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1995
• Appendix K: Waterways Experiment Station, 1998
• Appendix L: Geographical Information System (GIS) Methodology, 1998
• Appendix M and N: Prior Studies and Newspaper Articles, 1998
• Appendix O: Other Publications, 1998

Red River Waterway Project, Shreveport, LA, to Daingerfield, TX, Reach, Reevaluation Study In-Progress Review: Appendix 6: Aquatic Resources. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1994

Caddo Lake: A Unique Wetland Ecosystem (A Delineation of Resource Category 1 Habitat Under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mitigation Policy). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1993

Application of the Habitat Evaluation Procedures in the Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas. Hathorn, Paul M. and K. Jack Killgore, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1987

Report on Minimum Flow Considerations, Terrestrial Mitigation and Ecological Effects on Caddo Lake Associated with Little Cypress Reservoir Development. Espey, Huston and Associates, 1987

Feasibility Report on Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1987

A Report on the Aquatic Resources of the Cypress Bayou Basin, Texas. Cloud, Tom, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1984

Reconnaissance Investigation of the Ground-Water Resources of the Red River, Sulphur River, and Cypress Creek Basins, Texas. Texas Water Commission, 1963

Examination of Ferry (Caddo) Lake Vol. 1. U.S. Department of the Interior, 1914

Examination of Ferry (Caddo) Lake Vol. 2. James, Lionel, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1914

MAJOR PROJECTS REPORTS

Fish Community Indices for Long Term Monitoring in Response to Implementation of Environmental Flow Recommendations in the Caddo Lake Watershed. Trungale Egineering and Science, 2015

Final Report for Big Cypress Bayou Paddlefish Reintroduction Experiment. US Fish & Wildlife Service, 2015

Summary of Development of Building Blocks and Other Work on the Cypress River Basin as of 2012 with a 2015 Update. Lowerre, Richard, 2015

Implementation of Building Blocks Recommendations at Lake O’ The Pines on Big Cypress Creek. Trungale Engineering and Science, 2014

Application of a Framework for Monitoring, Reporting and Managing Dam Operations for Environmental Flows at Sustainable Rivers Project Sites at Lake O’ The Pines on Big Cypress Creek. Trungale Engineering and Science, 2014

Evaluation of Impacts of Releases from Lake O’ the Pines on Flows Downstream. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2010

Environmental Flow Regime and Analysis Recommendation Report. Trungale Engineering and Science, 2010

Presentation on Flows in the Cypress Basin. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2008

Cypress Basin Hydrology Update. Trungale Engineering and Science, 2006

• Appendix to Hydrology Update, 2006

Summary Report Supporting the Development of Flow Recommendations for the Stretch of Big Cypress Creek below Lake O’ The Pines Dam. Texas A&M University, 2005

• Flow Recommendations Summary Report–Appendices, 2005
• Flow Recommendations Summary Report–Annotated Bibliography, 2005

FIELD STUDIES

Effect of Rainfall and High Flow Pulse Release on Soil Moisture for Long Term Monitoring in Response to Implementation of Environmental Flow Recommendations in the Caddo Lake Watershed. Drs. Roy Darville and Ray Darville, 2015

Installation of the Big Cypress Bayou Monitoring Network: Groundwater, Soil Moisture, and Long-Term Vegetation Plots 2012-2013. Environmental Conservation Alliance, 2013

Floodplain Inundation, Data Analysis and Monitoring Design, Caddo-Cypress Basin. Hayes, Tom and Joe Trungale for the Caddo Lake Institute, 2012

Caddo Lake Intensive Water Quality and Vegetation Study. Darville, Roy, 2012

Baseline Assessment of Physical Characteristics, Aquatic Biota, and Selected Water-Quality Properties at the Reach and Mesohabitat Scale for Three Stream Reaches in the Big Cypress Basin, Northeastern Texas, 2010-2011. Braun, Christopher L. and James B. Moring, 2013

Fact Sheet for Baseline Assessment of Physical Characteristics, Aquatic Biota, and Selected Water-Quality Properties at the Reach and Mesohabitat Scale for Three Stream Reaches in the Big Cypress Basin, Northeastern Texas, 2010-2011. Braun, Christopher L. and James B. Moring, 2013

OTHER DOCUMENTS

Sulphur River Environmental Flow Regime and Analysis Recommendation Report. Trungale Engineering and Science, 2015

Cypress Creek River Basin Highlights Report. Texas Clean Rivers Program, Northeast Texas Municipal Water District, 2015

Cypress Creek River Basin Summary Report. Texas Clean Rivers Program, Northeast Texas Municipal Water District, 2014