County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Allen Engineering and Science, Inc.
Summary:
Allen Engineering Services conducted a review of successful living shoreline programs, identifying challenges and opportunities for application in Texas.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Allen Engineering and Science, Inc.
Summary:
Allen Engineering Services developed a comprehensive Living Shoreline Management Guide for the GLO.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Allen Engineering and Science, Inc.
Summary:
Allen Engineering completed Phase II of the Texas Living shoreline Initiative. This Phase of the project includes the development of the Living Shoreline Management Guide and the Implementation of an Outreach Program.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca repaired 184 linear feet of bulkhead and topped it with a concrete cap, and installed 350 linear feet of 6-foot-wide concrete walkway along the west end of the east wall of the bayfront peninsula.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The Port Lavaca Port Commission completed the Waterfront Revitalization and Ecotourism Development Project of the bayfront peninsula by constructing a four-foot-wide concrete walkway approximately 525 feet long with steps down to the water's edge.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
City of Port Lavaca constructed a four foot concrete walkway approximately 600 feet long around the end of the peninsula, with steps down to the water edge.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca constructed public restroom facilities to accommodate the many local residents and tourists who utilize and visit the peninsula.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca Port Commission continued its efforts to revitalize the popular Bayfront Peninsula by removing approximately 350 linear feet of existing deteriorated timber walkway along the shoreline.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bayou Preservation Association, Inc.
Summary:
Bayou Preservation Association, Inc. completed Phase II of restoration work at Challenger Seven Memorial Park by removing 16.5 acres of invasive species from the banks of Clear Creek.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Port of Houston Authority
Summary:
The Port of Houston Authority constructed footbridges and observation platforms throughout the Demonstration Marsh to better study the progress of the marsh. The project also erected interpretative signage.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County Beach and Parks Department
Summary:
Galveston County Beach and Parks Department reshaped the park's bluff shoreline to a maintainable slope, adding soil where needed, and protecting the shore's edge with limestone rip-rap.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
Galveston County constructed a multi-purpose trail at Bayshore Spillway Park, as well as placed picnic structures, benches, trash receptacles, and educational/interpretive kiosks along the trail. The concrete trail is 1,986 feet in length.
County/Region:
Refugio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Town of Bayside
Summary:
County/Region:
Refugio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Copano Bay Soil and Water Conservation District
Summary:
Copano Bay Soil and Water Conservation District completed an alternatives assessment report and designed and installed a temporary wave barrier.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Baytown
Summary:
The City of Baytown constructed a 500' concrete riprap breakwater that connects to the existing breakwater on Burnet Bay to help control the ongoing erosion along the Crystal Bay shoreline.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Unassigned CMP LegacyGrants
Summary:
Project completed the Txcoasts.com website.
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Village of Surfside Beach
Summary:
Village of Surfside Beach extendED six area walkovers at streets perpendicular to the beach 40 to 175 feet to the edge of the dune/beach interface.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi updated the Texas Public Access Inventory and enhanced the Texas General Land Office’s (GLO) Texas Beach and Bay Access Guide (BBAG).
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute
Summary: