The San Marcos River Rangers are volunteers trained as citizen scientists to conduct scientific data collection at 30 sites along the San Marcos and Blanco rivers. As the oldest and one of the ... Continue Reading »
Water Quality
Habitat Restoration
Restoring degraded or eroding river banks, removing invasive species from on land and in the waterways and putting in more native species, SMRF works with numerous volunteers to help restore the river ... Continue Reading »
Wastewater Discharge Standards
SMRF’s early years focused building community support for the protection of the river and identifying areas with poor water quality. Starting with community-wide river clean ups and volunteer water ... Continue Reading »
San Marcos Watershed Initiative
In 2010, the Upper San Marcos River Watershed was cited on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)’s 303(d) list of impaired waters, for exceeding total dissolved solids (TDS) water ... Continue Reading »
Plum Creek Watershed Protection Plan
For over two decades, SMRF served on the steering committee for the Plum Creek Watershed Protection Project, creating and enacting a comprehensive plan to improve water quality in an impaired creek in ... Continue Reading »
