alexander
@texaswaterpunk.bsky.social
former east dallasite turned riverbottom rambler, dabbling in riparian restoration. volunteer- and wildland firefighter
http://TXRIVERS.ORG
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This comes from a long-awaited adherence to a FOIA request per direction of the AG's office. TXDOT and the reps were hiding this correspondence regarding the Cutoff of the Trinity River for over half a year.
As I've said before, public waters in Texas are for sale and the price is dirt cheap.
As I've said before, public waters in Texas are for sale and the price is dirt cheap.
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This comes from a long-awaited adherence to a FOIA request per direction of the AG's office. TXDOT and the reps were hiding this correspondence regarding the Cutoff of the Trinity River for over half a year.
As I've said before, public waters in Texas are for sale and the price is dirt cheap.
As I've said before, public waters in Texas are for sale and the price is dirt cheap.
Last night, identities of 3 individuals were released who have been directing TXDOT to aid a landowner on his conquest to privatize a beloved 735-acre waterbody (The Cutoff) owned by the State of Texas. They are: House Representatives Keith Bell and Cody Harris, and Senator Robert Nichols.
October 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Last night, identities of 3 individuals were released who have been directing TXDOT to aid a landowner on his conquest to privatize a beloved 735-acre waterbody (The Cutoff) owned by the State of Texas. They are: House Representatives Keith Bell and Cody Harris, and Senator Robert Nichols.
as gale force winds endure 200 miles south of the eyewall, masked bobbies plunging into the seawater amid 20+ foot waves to feed on various fish potentially including flying fish, squid, small tuna
August 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
as gale force winds endure 200 miles south of the eyewall, masked bobbies plunging into the seawater amid 20+ foot waves to feed on various fish potentially including flying fish, squid, small tuna
up close and personal with the spiral rainbands of Hurricane Erin this morning aboard @royalcaribbeanintl.bsky.social's Wonder of the Seas. ~200 miles south of the eye, enduring gale force winds from SW, wave heights well over 15 feet
August 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
up close and personal with the spiral rainbands of Hurricane Erin this morning aboard @royalcaribbeanintl.bsky.social's Wonder of the Seas. ~200 miles south of the eye, enduring gale force winds from SW, wave heights well over 15 feet
can't wait to paddle the upper Guadalupe River later this year and witness all the thousands of cypress trees which survived flow rates that more than doubled that of Niagara Falls
some pictures I took from Guadalupe River State Park this spring:
some pictures I took from Guadalupe River State Park this spring:
August 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
can't wait to paddle the upper Guadalupe River later this year and witness all the thousands of cypress trees which survived flow rates that more than doubled that of Niagara Falls
some pictures I took from Guadalupe River State Park this spring:
some pictures I took from Guadalupe River State Park this spring:
Guadalupe River at further risk: I am hearing reports from Kerr County that debris removal contractors have been emphasizing getting out as much material as possible because they are being paid by weight - so they were getting material out while it was still wet, green and heavy.
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Guadalupe River at further risk: I am hearing reports from Kerr County that debris removal contractors have been emphasizing getting out as much material as possible because they are being paid by weight - so they were getting material out while it was still wet, green and heavy.
Self-described environmentalist, Dallas-based hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass, is looking to take over 46,000 acre-feet (15 billion gallons) of water per year out of the Carrizo-Wilcox in East Texas www.ketk.com/news/local-n...
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Self-described environmentalist, Dallas-based hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass, is looking to take over 46,000 acre-feet (15 billion gallons) of water per year out of the Carrizo-Wilcox in East Texas www.ketk.com/news/local-n...
Checked out a neat beaver lodge on the shore of Richland-Chambers Reservoir on Saturday. It is a hybrid of both common types of lodges: the classic conical lodge & the bank lodge. Setting up a game camera to monitor their dam maintenance activities for the next couple weeks.
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Checked out a neat beaver lodge on the shore of Richland-Chambers Reservoir on Saturday. It is a hybrid of both common types of lodges: the classic conical lodge & the bank lodge. Setting up a game camera to monitor their dam maintenance activities for the next couple weeks.
Last weekend's overnight paddle down the Angelina River was one for the books. Deep, cool oxbow lakes, full of fish, surround the Angelina before it meets the Neches. 46 species of birds heard & seen, highlights: dozens of prothonotary warblers, parulas + 2 swallow-tailed kites.
April 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Last weekend's overnight paddle down the Angelina River was one for the books. Deep, cool oxbow lakes, full of fish, surround the Angelina before it meets the Neches. 46 species of birds heard & seen, highlights: dozens of prothonotary warblers, parulas + 2 swallow-tailed kites.
Snapshot from @alereports.bsky.social & @texastribune.org regarding Texas' Water Crisis on display during lecture by Dr. Matthew Berg at @TAMU this afternoon during the annual Water Day event at the university. Great, innovative presentations and posters shared today by students & faculty.
April 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Snapshot from @alereports.bsky.social & @texastribune.org regarding Texas' Water Crisis on display during lecture by Dr. Matthew Berg at @TAMU this afternoon during the annual Water Day event at the university. Great, innovative presentations and posters shared today by students & faculty.
as we head towards spring, gentle reminder that nearly 90% of the developed infrastructure and landscape at s***hole tesla gigafactory is in the floodplain : - )
February 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
as we head towards spring, gentle reminder that nearly 90% of the developed infrastructure and landscape at s***hole tesla gigafactory is in the floodplain : - )
Paddling on the San Marcos River yesterday on a warm February afternoon with @rivergeek.bsky.social and singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Beth Galiger. Got up close and personal with a great horned owl while on one of the most special rivers in Texas.
February 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Paddling on the San Marcos River yesterday on a warm February afternoon with @rivergeek.bsky.social and singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Beth Galiger. Got up close and personal with a great horned owl while on one of the most special rivers in Texas.
But what's with the out-of-district contribution to TX Senator Pete Flores? Flores authored CSSB 1236 which amended hunting rights in navigable, public streams in Texas, causing an uproar among hunters all across the Lone Star State and especially multi-generational duck hunters on the Trinity.
January 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
But what's with the out-of-district contribution to TX Senator Pete Flores? Flores authored CSSB 1236 which amended hunting rights in navigable, public streams in Texas, causing an uproar among hunters all across the Lone Star State and especially multi-generational duck hunters on the Trinity.
Save The Cutoff looked at political contributions of the *landowner* who has infamously (and illegally) blocked access to part of the old, public Trinity River-bed in Henderson County. These contributions all took place when Save The Cutoff and other orgs began organizing to restore access.
January 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Save The Cutoff looked at political contributions of the *landowner* who has infamously (and illegally) blocked access to part of the old, public Trinity River-bed in Henderson County. These contributions all took place when Save The Cutoff and other orgs began organizing to restore access.
Woke up to some snow at Beech Ravines Scenic Area, Sabine National Forest, yesterday; icicles in the chasms of Upper Colorow Creek. Steepest hillslopes in Deep East Texas in an obscure part of the state. Feeling ready to take on 2025 today.
January 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Woke up to some snow at Beech Ravines Scenic Area, Sabine National Forest, yesterday; icicles in the chasms of Upper Colorow Creek. Steepest hillslopes in Deep East Texas in an obscure part of the state. Feeling ready to take on 2025 today.
Today on the Burleson County scanner: non-operational oil pad explodes around 10:45am, 3 miles from the Brazos River. Reports suggest the boom could be heard over 20 miles away and that the blast could be felt in buildings over 10 miles away. Awaiting details on the cause.
January 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Today on the Burleson County scanner: non-operational oil pad explodes around 10:45am, 3 miles from the Brazos River. Reports suggest the boom could be heard over 20 miles away and that the blast could be felt in buildings over 10 miles away. Awaiting details on the cause.
While Meta is down at lunch... enjoy these pictures of an old growth bald cypress tree in East Texas.
Tree is perhaps over 500 years old and lives in an ancient, cypress-lined oxbow lake from a meander scar of the Neches River at Upland Island Wilderness Area in the Angelina National Forest.
Tree is perhaps over 500 years old and lives in an ancient, cypress-lined oxbow lake from a meander scar of the Neches River at Upland Island Wilderness Area in the Angelina National Forest.
December 11, 2024 at 6:25 PM
While Meta is down at lunch... enjoy these pictures of an old growth bald cypress tree in East Texas.
Tree is perhaps over 500 years old and lives in an ancient, cypress-lined oxbow lake from a meander scar of the Neches River at Upland Island Wilderness Area in the Angelina National Forest.
Tree is perhaps over 500 years old and lives in an ancient, cypress-lined oxbow lake from a meander scar of the Neches River at Upland Island Wilderness Area in the Angelina National Forest.
Their instagram has ~6.5K followers but struggles to get even a dozen likes on posts on avg. The politically hijacked agency relies on major network footage of commissioner Buckingham ranting via prompts about non-existent "wide open border policies" and "violent" immigrants for political gain.
December 7, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Their instagram has ~6.5K followers but struggles to get even a dozen likes on posts on avg. The politically hijacked agency relies on major network footage of commissioner Buckingham ranting via prompts about non-existent "wide open border policies" and "violent" immigrants for political gain.
The Texas General Land Office has the most pathetic social media of any state gov probably in the nation. They routinely reshare old success stories each year disguised as 'new' stories. Let's look at a warm rebuilding story from Hurricane Harvey: reshared in '21, '22, and twice in '24.
December 7, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The Texas General Land Office has the most pathetic social media of any state gov probably in the nation. They routinely reshare old success stories each year disguised as 'new' stories. Let's look at a warm rebuilding story from Hurricane Harvey: reshared in '21, '22, and twice in '24.
Paddling Arkansas's Bayou DeView Water trail this evening, a slow stream in the Arkansas Delta region that cuts through cypress-tupelo brakes. The bass are biting & snow geese are flying over by the thousands. Hearing dozens of red headed woodpeckers drumming just before sunset was a real treat!
November 23, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Paddling Arkansas's Bayou DeView Water trail this evening, a slow stream in the Arkansas Delta region that cuts through cypress-tupelo brakes. The bass are biting & snow geese are flying over by the thousands. Hearing dozens of red headed woodpeckers drumming just before sunset was a real treat!
That was a great report, Bethany! The pictures from the FOIA doc are wild. COD's report only looked at water lost during the month of July while your report looked at potentially a decade of leakage.
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 PM
That was a great report, Bethany! The pictures from the FOIA doc are wild. COD's report only looked at water lost during the month of July while your report looked at potentially a decade of leakage.
After the incident, to gaslight me, the City of Dallas shared with the press that the leak rate was 12,000 gal per day (garden hose leak). The true number was 121 times that amount. 🐷🐷🐷
As my friends in Northeast Texas, protesting Marvin Nichols Reservoir, would call them: "Water Hogs".
As my friends in Northeast Texas, protesting Marvin Nichols Reservoir, would call them: "Water Hogs".
November 20, 2024 at 7:58 PM
After the incident, to gaslight me, the City of Dallas shared with the press that the leak rate was 12,000 gal per day (garden hose leak). The true number was 121 times that amount. 🐷🐷🐷
As my friends in Northeast Texas, protesting Marvin Nichols Reservoir, would call them: "Water Hogs".
As my friends in Northeast Texas, protesting Marvin Nichols Reservoir, would call them: "Water Hogs".
this was fun + horrifying to kayak on. In May the lying City of Dallas staff shed their skin via a FOIA request + shared the true leak rate at 1,005 gal per minute.
1,005 gpm ➡ 60K gal per hour ➡ 1.45 M gal per day ➡ 43.4 M gal per month ➡ 521 M gal per year ➡ 5.7 B gal over the 11-year leak.
1,005 gpm ➡ 60K gal per hour ➡ 1.45 M gal per day ➡ 43.4 M gal per month ➡ 521 M gal per year ➡ 5.7 B gal over the 11-year leak.
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 PM
this was fun + horrifying to kayak on. In May the lying City of Dallas staff shed their skin via a FOIA request + shared the true leak rate at 1,005 gal per minute.
1,005 gpm ➡ 60K gal per hour ➡ 1.45 M gal per day ➡ 43.4 M gal per month ➡ 521 M gal per year ➡ 5.7 B gal over the 11-year leak.
1,005 gpm ➡ 60K gal per hour ➡ 1.45 M gal per day ➡ 43.4 M gal per month ➡ 521 M gal per year ➡ 5.7 B gal over the 11-year leak.
Stoked to get out of Texas for the weekend and visit one of the largest acreages of old growth forest in the Upland South, the Sugarberry Research Natural Area, within Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge in the Arkansas Delta region.
Stay tuned for big tree pics and swamps 🐊
Stay tuned for big tree pics and swamps 🐊
November 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Stoked to get out of Texas for the weekend and visit one of the largest acreages of old growth forest in the Upland South, the Sugarberry Research Natural Area, within Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge in the Arkansas Delta region.
Stay tuned for big tree pics and swamps 🐊
Stay tuned for big tree pics and swamps 🐊