County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
IRA Non-Competitive Award to fund work an expansion of the work with UT-BEG (Jeff Paine) on barrier island breaching (GLO Contract No. 22-024-000-E027) and with Tetra Tech to create a sediment placement database and dashboard.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
Cameron County seeks to continue its partnership with the Texas General Land Office and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to nourish the beach at Isla Blanca Park further. The proposed project area spans approximately 4,858 linear feet.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
Cameron County constructed new restroom facilities and a walkover for accessibility.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
This beach nourishment project beneficially using dredged material from the Brownsville Ship Channel jetty and entrance channel segments.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
This was a beach nourishment project using dredged material from the Brownsville Ship Channel and annual beach monitoring surveys.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Summary:
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Summary:
The GLO is partnered with Ducks Unlimited for the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Shoreline Protection Project to construct approximately 0.5 miles of rock breakwaters along the northern boundary of Salt Bayou Unit in the J.D. Murphree WMA.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County Parks & Recreation Department
Summary:
Cameron County constructed a 40' x 10' lighted fishing pier, a 20' x 6' permanent kayak launching area, and installed trash cans at the fishing pier for proper disposal of trash.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Jamaica Beach
Summary:
This project restored an engineered dune project destroyed by Hurricane Ike.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Jamaica Beach
Summary:
This project completed permitting for Jamaica Beach Beach Nourishment CEPRA 1482
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Summary:
Buffalo Bayou Partnership acquired a .54-acre property along Japhet Creek and transfered the title to the Houston Parks & Recreation Department for long-term monitoring.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Clear Lake Shores
Summary:
The City of Clear Lake Shores designed a boardwalk and fishing stations, and conducted a public education campaign on the impacts of exotic species (i.e., nutria) to wetland and estuarine habitats.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Clear Lake Shores
Summary:
City of Clear Lake Shores developed the Jarboe Bayou Park with a pedestrian linkage to a pedestrian bridge and restored native prairie habitat and rehabilitated natural shoreline along Jarboe Bayou within the community of Clear Lake Shores.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
This project completed final design and construction for multiple nesting island enhancements and oyster reef restoration of four sites in Jones Bay.
County/Region:
Chambers
Project Partner/Recipient:
Chambers County
Summary:
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The project included the creation of a geotextile tube wave barrier to protect 35 acres of intertidal marsh and 18 acres of tidal flat. Raising bay bottom elevations to levels necessary for intertidal marsh vegetation restored fifteen acres of marsh.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project built marsh mounds and vegetated the mounds with Spartina alterniflora to restore over 78 acres of habitat.
County/Region:
Kleberg
Project Partner/Recipient:
Kleberg County
Summary:
Kleberg County renovated and redredged the existing boat ramp at Kaufer-Hubert Memorial Park at Loyola Beach.