Our Office

The Zara Environmental office is located on the west side of Manchaca, Texas. Our building is perched on the edge of Bear Creek, just downstream of the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. A fault juxtaposing the Austin Chalk against the Buda Limestone Formations causes a waterfall that drops into a large plunge pool. When sufficient flow makes it across the recharge zone this stretch makes for a fun paddling trip.

The City of Austin has chosen Zara Environmental to host a stream gage measuring the discharge of Bear Creek at our office.  The Bear Creek watershed upstream of Zara has a Catchment of over 16,000 acres, with an over 9 kilometer stream segment passing through the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone.  It is the City's goal to quantify the amount of recharge along this stretch of Bear Creek by comparing the flows at upstream gages along Bear Creek to the gage at Zara.