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Environmental Quality Staff and Contact Information

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Telephone

Weekdays, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm:
(512) 854-9383

Environmental Hot Line:
(512) 854-4400

NameEmailTitle
David Peyton [email protected] Environmental Project Manager, Storm Water
Amanda Kemp [email protected] Environmental Project Manager, Sustainability
Adele Noel [email protected] Environmental Project Manager, Air Quality
Johanna Arendt [email protected] Environmental Project Manager, Environmental Resiliency
Emily Ackland [email protected] Environmental Quality Program Manager
Jon White [email protected] Natural Resources/Environmental Quality Division Director

Partners

We partner within TNR with the Development Services Division and the Public Works Division, to ensure timely and complete environmental review of county-funded and private development projects. 

We also collaborate on specific cases, and dependent on the jurisdictional area, with the County Attorney’s Enforcement Litigation and Collections Division, Travis County Emergency Services’ Hazardous Materials Coordinator,  Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services’ Environmental and Consumer Health Unit, City of Austin Watershed Protection Division, Texas Agrilife Extension Office, Capital Area Council of Government (CAPCOG), the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and our many municipalities within Travis County.

Our program is also supported through our memberships with the Travis County Dumping Committee, Regional Environmental Task ForceCentral Texas Land and Water Sustainability Forum (CTL WSF), Regional Water Quality Plan Work Group (RWQP) and Keep Austin Beautiful (KAB).

TAX RATE: TRAVIS COUNTY ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR’S TAX RATE. THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 12.7 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY APPROXIMATELY $34.51.