Texas Bays and Estuaries Need Your Help

CCA Texas needs your help to ensure Texas bays and estuaries receive adequate fresh water inflows. Bills are currently in committee and your immediate help is needed.  Please take a few minutes of your time and send letters TODAY to the Governor's Office, Lt. Governor's Office, your Texas Senator, your Texas Representative and the members of the House and Senate Natural Resources Committees. Your assistance is vital in this effort to guarantee proper fresh water inflows to Texas’s precious bays and estuaries.

You can help by using the sample letter below or going to the link provided below and downloading a letter.  Be sure to include your return address in all correspondence.

TIME IS CRUCIAL! PLEASE ACT NOW!

For more information, contact CCA Texas at ccatx@ccatexas.org.

Correspondence to members of the legislature should be addressed to their respective offices in Austin.

Please feel free to use the letter below or a letter of your own to help CCA Texas ensure Texas bays and estuaries receive adequate fresh water inflows.  Members of the Senate and House Natural Resources Committees are listed below.

Links to letter: - CCA Specific or Concerned Angler

Cut and paste version

Dear Representative ____________/Senator ____________,

I am a member of the Coastal Conservation Association.  I want to thank you and the Texas Legislature for considering the passage of HB 3 and SB 3.  It is a valiant attempt to create a process where the freshwater needs of the Texas bays and estuaries will be both quantified and met in the future.

The basin by basin study approach is a good one.  But, it will take time; time during which the State’s remaining water will likely be appropriated permanently.  Given the permits now pending there will be little, or nothing, left for set aside for in stream flows and bay health as contemplated by HB 3 and SB 3.

Please insist that there be included in HB 3 and in its Senate counterpart SB 3 a moratorium on the applications to appropriate or to reuse waters presently pending before the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality, until the HB 3 and SB 3 studies are complete.  Only with the moratorium will the results of the studies be meaningful.  Only then will there be State water available to supply the scientifically proven need.

As a member of the Coastal Conservation Association, I would also like to go on record as opposing the construction of any new reservoirs on Texas’ rivers and streams that would jeopardize the inflow of fresh water into our bays and estuaries.

Thank you for your positive consideration of my suggestions.

Sincerely yours,

CCA Member

House Natural Resources Committee

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Senate Natural Resources Committee
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