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Background
The Environmental Quality of Life, or e-Life, project is intended to increase awareness about local environmental issues, and individual, voluntary measures that the public can take to protect our North Central Texas watershed resources. This project provides the distribution and communication mechanism to get environmental information to the public effectively and efficiently via the weather reports at KTVT Channel 11. Two main elements will be the feature of this project, one is the on-air broadcasting of environmental tips and stories, and the other is a specialized web site about the Upper Trinity River watersheds where visitors will be able to learn more about their local environment. To make this project successful, we will need the participation of many local stakeholders.
The North Central Texas project is being funded by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and is modeled after a successful collaborative effort anchored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and supported by StormCenter Communications. Envirocast® was originally implemented in Washington, D.C., and was designed to raise public awareness of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. In the North Central Texas area, the Envirocast® project is being branded as e-Life or Environmental Quality of Life. These innovative projects are now active in 9 metropolitan areas across the nation. The projects employ local TV weather reports as a means to raise the environmental awareness of the region’s residents. To complement information provided on-the-air, StormCenter, and the local TV station partner develop a companion Web page that the station meteorologists incorporate during on-air weather broadcasts. The Envirocast® Project website is prominently featured on the TV station’s weather website.
The project will deliver a series of seasonal and weather-related “watershed tips” on how to prevent and minimize NPS pollution. Citizens will also learn how they can get involved in local watershed protection and NPS pollution prevention efforts in their communities. Interactive watershed tools will provide information about drinking water quality, wetlands, floods and droughts, agriculture, land use, forestry, soil erosion, urbanization, and other watershed topics. Animated movies compiled from satellite and radar technology will replicate moving “flyovers” of specific watersheds. Watershed-related stories will also be featured on-the-air, including promotions for locally driven NPS pollution prevention and outreach activities for citizens in the watersheds.
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Project Geography
This project covers 9 watersheds in the Upper Trinity River Basin that are reached by the station's broadcasting range. In addition, one Lower Trinity River Basin watershed is also included in the project to illustrate the continuation of the Basin down to the Gulf. Please note, this is not a statewide project. This project will only be broadcasted in the North Central Texas area.
Upper Trinity watersheds major focus of project: (note these are HUC 8 classified watersheds)
- Upper West Fork
- Lower West Fork
- Elm Fork
- Denton
- Upper Trinity Mainstem
- East Fork
- Cedar
- Richland
- Chambers
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- Tehuacana ( this is a Lower Trinity River watershed)
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Project Supporters
This project was made possible thanks to the unprecedented partnership and support of the Environmental Protection Agency-Region 6, the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, KTVT, StormCenter Communications and the North Central Texas Council of Governments. Funding is provided through the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board's Nonpoint Source Management Program.
   
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