Board authorizes two-year Clean Rivers contract with TCEQ for water-quality monitoring, $948,176
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The board authorized the general manager/CEO to enter a two-year agreement with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to perform Clean Rivers water-quality monitoring and outreach for fiscal years 2026-2027, with total funding of $948,176 split evenly between the two years.
Chief Environmental Officer Tiffany Mozart told directors on July 28 that the Brazos River Authority—s biannual renewal with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continues the authority—s role in the Clean Rivers program, which supports water-quality monitoring and basin-level water-quality assessments.
Mozart said the Clean Rivers contract covers generation of quality-assured water-quality and stream-biology data, data analysis to identify water-quality issues or exceedances of surface water standards, recommendations to TCEQ on management strategies and outreach in the basin. The contract covers fiscal years 2026 and 2027, totals $948,176 and is split evenly between the two fiscal years. The contract requires no local match and is effective Sept. 1, 2025.
The board authorized the general manager/CEO to enter the agreement with TCEQ by resolution. Mozart said staff will continue the data-collection and outreach activities required under the Clean Rivers program and report as required.
