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What is a watershed?

A watershed is the geographical boundary within which water flows after a storm event. A typical watershed is depicted in Diagram 1below. The McLennan and Hill Counties Tehuacana Creek Water Improvement District #1 (District) is an agency initiated by the federal government in the late 1960’s to reduce flooding and erosion in the Tehuacana Creek Watershed. The Tehuacana Creek originates in Hill County and proceeds through McLennan County to the Brazos River.

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The Tehuacana Creek watershed covers 310 square miles and includes portions of Hill, McLennan, and Limestone counties (Tehuacana Creek Water Control and Improvement District 2005). The stream originates in Hill County and flows 31 miles from Hill to McLennan County and joins the Brazos River south of SH 6, about five miles east of Waco (Figure 1). Several tributaries that drain eastern portions of McLennan County feed into Tehuacana Creek. Little Tehuacana Creek is the largest tributary and starts in West, Texas, joining Tehuacana Creek approximately a mile north of US 84. Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir, located on Tradinghouse Creek in the southeastern portion of the Tehuacana Creek watershed, is the largest reservoir in the watershed. The reservoir provides cooling water to the Luminant Tradinghouse Power Plant.
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Located in the Texas Blackland Prairie, Ecoregion 32 (Griffith 2004), the naturally fertile soils consist of rich minerals weathered from limestone, shale, and marl (USDA 1992). These fertile soils provide rangeland for beef and dairy cattle. Corn, wheat, hay, grain sorghums, soybeans, and nursery crops are the main crops grown in McLennan County (Ramos 1999). The flat-to-rolling terrain also supports mesquite, cacti, water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses (Handbook of Texas 2006b).

During the 1950's the Tehuacana Creek watershed experienced floods that eroded and damaged farmland, crops, roads, and bridges. As a result of the extensive damage throughout the watershed, Public Law 566 was passed by the 83rd Congress and is known as The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (USDA 1977). Under Public Law 566, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) assisted in building 27 flood control dams along the stream and its tributaries to help eliminate damage during future flood events (NRCS 1998). The USDA also installed 32 grade stabilization structures and did channel work on 10.1 miles of the stream (USDA 1977). The channel work included the enlargement and straightening of Tehuacana Creek from the mouth of Tradinghouse Creek to the mouth of Cottonwood Creek, which enters Tehuacana Creek from the east, upstream from US 84 (USDA 1958). In order to fund the flood control structures, the Tehuacana Creek Water Control and Improvement District 1 was created by Public Law 566.

The final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tehuacana Creek watershed flood control project estimated that the flood control structures would reduce the sediment load for the watershed from 242,000 tons to 112,000 tons annually (USDA 1977).

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