GIWW Rollover Bay Reach Beneficial Use of Dredge Material

Summary

Through a collaboration between the Corps, Galveston County, and the GLO, approximately 105,000 cubic yards of beach quality sand dredged from an annual maintenance dredging of the Rollover Bay Reach of the GIWW was placed onto 1,200 feet of beach to renourish Caplen Beach immediately west of Rollover Pass, an area that has experienced historical erosion rates of up to nine feet per year.