County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Brazoria County
Summary:
This project amended the USACE permit authorizing dredging of the San Luis Pass County Park boat access channel and basin to authorize placement of material dredged from the access channel and basin on the Gulf-facing shoreline of Treasure Island.
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Treasure Island MUD
Summary:
This project will construct a shoreline protection structure (subterraneous stone revetment) that connects the existing stone revetment terminating near the southeastern extent of Gulf Beach Drive into the CR257 bridge abutment.
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Brazoria County
Summary:
Brazoria County collected survey data to characterize the Gulf of Mexico shoreline and adjacent seabed in the vicinity of Treasure Island, Texas.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute
Summary:
The University of Texas identified the causes of low dissolved oxygen values in the Tres Palacios harbor area, the possible solutions, and shared the solutions with users of the harbor.
County/Region:
Kleberg
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
This project included preliminary engineering, alternatives analysis, and 70% construction design for a minimum of 900 linear feet in shoreline protection.
County/Region:
Kleberg
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
The project constructed 1,129 linear feet of rock rubble breakwater around Triangle Tree rookery island in the Upper Laguna Madre.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Internal GLO Study
Summary:
The GLO investigated an offshore sand source within state-owned submerged waters located in the Trinity River Valley Paleochannel.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Aransas First
Summary:
Aransas First developed a master plan for the flood plain of the lower Tule Creek, installed interpretive signage, and constructed an approximate 20' X 30' partially covered pavilion connected to the existing viewing boardwalk.
County/Region:
Chambers
Project Partner/Recipient:
Chambers Liberty Counties Navigation District
Summary:
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Summary:
The Environmental Institute of Houston at the University of Houston at Clear Lake will determine the most effective restoration method for Texas’ coastal grassland habitat.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi worked to understand the near term (1-2 yr) ecosystem responses within East Bay to the closure of Rollover Pass.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Galveston studied the drivers of “red tide” blooms in Nueces-Corpus Christi Bay.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Corpus Christi
Summary:
The City of Corpus Christi developed final engineering plans and specifications for the second phase of the University Marina Beach Park (UMBP).
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The project will quantify erosion rates of shorelines with associated public access, infrastructure, and other resources threatened by erosion.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Sea Grant College Program
Summary:
Texas Sea Grant updated the Texas Public Access Inventory and enhanced the Texas General Land Office (TGLO) Beach and Bay Access Guide (BBAG).
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Sea Grant College Program
Summary:
Texas Sea Grant updated the Texas Public Access Inventory and enhanced the Texas General Land Office's Beach and Bay Access Guide by making it an editable online document and database.
County/Region:
Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Cameron, Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Matagorda, Nueces, Willacy
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas - Bureau of Ecnomic Geology
Summary:
This project updated the historical shoreline change rates for the entire Texas Gulf shoreline through the latest coast-wide photography available before Hurricane Ike made landfall.