PPT Slide
The Big Cypress/Caddo Lake Watershed
- TNRCC basin 4 (one of smallest in Texas)
- 2,812 square miles in northeast Texas
- water inputs into Caddo Lake
- precipitation: 47 inches/yr
- 4 major streams: Big Cypress, Little Cypress, Black Cypress, James Bayou
- smaller streams: Kitchen’s Creek, Harrison Bayou, Saunders’s Branch,
- nonpoint runoff
- Caddo watershed 2000 population: 633,000 (includes Shreveport area)
- industry: forestry, cattle, chickens, agriculture, oil & gas production