City Of Austin Watershed Protection Dept.

The purpose of the Watershed Protection and Development Review Department is to protect lives, property, and the environment of our community by reducing the impact of flooding, erosion, and water pollution and providing comprehensive development review and inspection services.

Description:
The goal of the Water Quality Protection program is to prevent, detect, evaluate and reduce water pollution in order to protect water quality and aquatic life in Austin's creeks, lakes and aquifers.
A wide range of pollution control strategies includes:

• Inspect and permit small businesses to prevent pollution discharges.
• Respond to emergency spills and pollution complaints
• Educate citizens on ways to prevent pollution
• Build water quality structural controls to treat contaminated storm water
• Monitor lakes, creeks and groundwater to identify problem areas and to help plan effective protection.



History:
The City of Austin was founded in 1839.


Contact people:


Katie Sternberg, Program Coordinator, (512) 974-2454, (email) Sara Heilman, Program Coordinator, (512) 974-3540, (email) Kathy Shay, Volunteer Manager, (512) 974-2550, (email)


Office fax number: (512) 974-2846

Address:


PO Box 1088 Austin, TX 78767


Web Site: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/watershed/wq_stormdrain.htm

Last updated on October 21, 2009