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Flood Reporting at Your Fingertips
A new one-of-a-kind tool is available to report flooding. The Flood Incident Reporting App is an easy-to-use application which allows landowners to submit current or recent flood data in their area. The information collected provides the Trinity River Authority and the National Weather Service with near real-time data to better evaluate flooding trends, confirm or refine flood categories and establish flood-risk reduction efforts.
Hidden Treasures of the Trinity
Angela Kilpatrick, manager of watershed science and grants, knows the river backward and forward. In her 19 years with the Trinity River Authority, she has explored the river countless times, yet she continues to uncover objects in and along the river that teach her something new about the life that exists around it.I am TRA: Ian Skeen
“I really think TRA has helped me figure out what I want to do in general. It didn’t help me achieve my goals; it really gave me a goal in the first place,” stated Skeen.