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Environmental Assessments (EA)

Western Boundary

12/2016 - Environmental Assessment for Rehabilitation of the Levee System in the Tijuana River Flood Control Project [11 MB]

08/2001 - Final Environmental Assessment, Implement International Agreement for Deliveries to Tijuana, Baja California, of a part of Mexico's Colorado River Watrs through the Southern California Aqueducts [5 MB]

Rio Grande

07/2024 - Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Management of Federal Grazing Leases at the Falcon Dam and Reservoir, Starr and Zapata Counties, Texas

10/2021 - Final Environmental Assessment Aquatic Habitat Restoration in the Rio Grande Canalization Project Sierra and Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico and El Paso County, Texas [14 MB]

08/2020 - Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Arroyo Colorado at Harlingen Flood Flow Improvement Project Cameron County, Texas [7 MB]

12/2019 - RMP-Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Environmental Assessment for the Continued Implementation of the River Management Plan for the Rio Grande Canalization [11 MB]

12/2017 - Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Channel Maintenance Alternatives at Thurman I and II Arroyos in Hatch, NM, Rio Grande Canalization Project [23 MB]

05/2017 - Draft Environmental Assessment: Flood Control Improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization Project from Vinton to Canutillo, El Paso County, Texas (Canutillo Phase II) [2 MB]

01/2017 - Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Alamito and Terneros Sediment and Vegetation Removal below Presidio Flood Control Project, Presidio, Texas [8 MB]

07/2014 - Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment: Flood Control Improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization Project in Vado, NM [3 MB]

07/2014 - Final Environmental Assessment: Allowing Avian Hunting in Designated Areas along the Rio Grande Canalization Project, Sierra and Doña Ana Counties, New Mexico [2 MB] (Appendices) [24 MB]

08/2012 - Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Non-Native Plant Control and Re-Establishment of Riparian Habitats Along the Rio Grange [4 MB]

10/2011 - Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment Improvements to the Mission Protective Levee System, Hidalgo County, TX [16 MB]

11/2010 - Improvements to the Arroyo Colorado South Levee, Hidalgo and Cameron Counties, Texas [24 MB]

06/2009 - Final Environmental Assessment on the Improvements to the Arroyo Colorado North Levee Project [43 MB]

05/2009 - Final Environmental Assessment of Emergency Levee Repairs to the Presidio Flood Control Project, Station 7+00 [6 MB]

03/2009 - Final EA and FONSI for Improvements to the Rio Grande Rectification Project in El Paso and Hudspeth Counties, Texas [44 MB]

12/2007 - Final Environmental Assessment on Flood Control Improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization Project [1 MB]

11/2007 - Final Environmental Assessment on Improvements to the North and Main Floodways Levee Systems [14 MB]

09/2007 - Final Environmental Assessment on Improvements to the Donna-Brownsville Levee System [7 MB] (Appendices) [76 MB]

05/2007 - Final Environmental Assessment on the Rio Grande Rectification Project: Flood Control Improvements, Int'l Dam to Riverside Diversion Dam, El Paso County, TX [18 MB]

04/2007 - Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact: Rio Grande Rectification Project, Flood Control Improvements International to Riverside Dam [20 MB] Comments due May 12, 2007

02/2007 - Final Environmental Assessment (EA) Mission Levee dated February 26, 2007 [30 MB]

01/2007 - Draft Environmental Assessment: Flood Control Improvements Lateral A/Retamal Dike Levee System [10 MB]

09/2005 - Final Environmental Assessment Alternatives for Improved Flood Control of the Hidalgo Protective Levee System of 9/2005, prepared for the USIBWC by Parsons. [30 MB]

01/2004 - Environmental Assessment Finding of No Significant Impact for the Retamal Sediment Removal Project (EA/NOSI) [7 MB] | Appendix A [3 MB] | Appendix B [173 KB] | Appendix C [162 KB] | Appendix D [559 KB]

12/2001 - Final Environmental Assessment for “Replacement of the Old American Canal” Located in El Paso, Texas [49 MB]

Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)

Western Boundary

05/2008 - USIBWC Issues Record of Decision for Final EIS of SBIWTP Clean Water Act Compliance [151 KB]

07/2005 - USIBWC announces the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Clean Water Act compliance at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, San Diego County, California, prepared by Parsons [44 MB]

07/2005 - Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Clean Water Act Compliance at the South Bay International Waste Water Treatment Plant [41 MB]

07/2003 - Lower Colorado River Boundary and Capacity Preservation Project [7 KB]

Rio Grande

02/2010 - Environmental Impact Statement for Flood Control Improvements and Partial Levee Relocation USIBWC Presidio Flood Control Project [11 MB]

06/2009 - Record of Decision on River Management Alternatives for the Rio Grande Canalization Project [219 KB]

01/2008 - Final PEIS on Improvements to the USIBWC Rio Grande Flood Control Projects along the Texas-Mexico Border [55 MB]

09/2004 - Rio Grande Canalization Project Brief w/ EIS [17 KB] and the 5/2004 River Management Plan [41 MB] | Biological Assessment [7 MB] | Draft EIS [20 MB]

02/2004 - Lower Rio Grande Flood Control Project Brief w/ EIS [19 KB]

12/2003 - Environmental Impact Statement for Alternative Vegetation Maintenance Practices for the Lower Rio Grande Flood Control Project in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties, TX

04/2001 - El Paso - Las Cruces Regional Sustainable Water Project with EIS [18 KB]

Comment on EA's & EIS's

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Water Quality Reports

Western Boundary

08/2020 - Binational Water Quality Study of the Tijuana River and Adjacent Canyons and Drains [9.3 MB]

06/2018 - 2016 - 2017 Biennial Receiving Waters Monitorings and Assessment Report for the Point Loma and South Bay Ocean Outfalls [17 MB]

12/2016 - Binational Study of the Transboundary San Pedro Aquifer [36 MB]

12/2016 - Binational Study of the Transboundary San Pedro Aquifer (Spanish Version) [14 MB]

12/2014 - Spill and Transboundary Wastewater Flow Event Prevention and Response Plan [7 MB] (Spanish Version [7 MB])

04/2009 - Nogales International Wastewater Treatment Plant Maximum Allowable Headworks Loading Development [392 KB]

02/2009 - FINAL REPORT: Coastal Observations and Monitoring in South Bay San Diego IBWC/Surfrider Consent Decree [31 MB]

03/2003 - Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Lower Colorado and New Rivers [2 MB]

01/2003 - Wastewater Characterization Study, City of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The study was prepared by the City of San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department. [2 MB]

06/2002 - Tijuana, Baja California Mexico Report #8 [1 MB] and for the City of Tecate, Baja California Report #1 [602 KB] and Report #2 [1 MB].

08 /2001 - Binational Nogales Wash United States/Mexico Groundwater Monitoring Program Final Report [3 MB]

12/2000 - Tijuana Wastewater Characterization [43 MB]

11/2000 - Binational Study Regarding the Intensive Monitoring of the Rio Grande Waters in the Vicinity of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Between the U.S. and Mexico [2 MB]

01/1997 - Construction of Immediate Need (“Quick Fix”) Projects in Mexicali, B.C., Mexico as Part of the Solution to the Sanitation of the New River, Executive Summary [9 MB]

Rio Grande

06/2004 - Third Phase of the Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Upper Portion of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Between the U.S. and Mexico (Final Report) [8 MB]

04/1998 - Second Phase of the Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and its Tributaries along the Boundary Portion between the United States and Mexico (Final Report, Vol I of II) English Version [13 MB]

04/1998 - Segunda Fase del Estudio Binacional Sobre la Presencia de Sustancias Tóxicas en el Río Bravo/Río Grande y sus Afluentes, en su Porción Fronteriza Entre México y Estados Unidos (Informe Final, Vol I of II) Versión en Español [362 KB]

09/1997 - Second Phase of the Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and its Tributaries along the Boundary Portion between the United States and Mexico (Final Report, Vol II of II) English Version [7 MB]

09/1994 - Binational Study Regarding the Presence of Toxic Substances in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo and its Tributaries along the Boundary Portion between the United States and Mexico (Final Report) [10 MB]

Canalization Record of Decision

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