TDEM

TEEX Helps Restore the City of Cumby’s Water System During January Disaster Declaration

The Texas A&M Public Works Response Team (TX-PWRT) was called to Cumby, a small community in Hopkins County northeast of Dallas, during the hard freeze in mid-January to help repair four water main breaks, which shut down the city’s water system for three days. Today, staff from the TEEX Extension Program in water and wastewater…

TX-TF1 conducts searches after tornado struck Polk & San Jacinto counties

COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) deployed a 35-member Type 3 Urban Search & Rescue team in response to severe weather that devastated communities in Polk and San Jacinto counties on the evening of April 22. The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) called on the TX-TF1 to assist local and state…