County/Region:
Brazoria, Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Brazoria County
Summary:
This project conducted shoreline protection and road reconstruction to repair the CR 257 roadbed along Follet’s Island to pre-Hurricane Ike condition and constructed 8.5 miles of buried revetments along the exposed edges of the road.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas
Summary:
The University of Texas developed plans for the construction of a wetland education center focusing on a recreated wetland on UTMSI land that is old dredge spoil.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston developed a circulation and sediment transport model that will assess a planned creek restoration design, and be of general use in all the beneficial use marshes under development.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project reviewed and updated shoreline change data and identified critically eroding areas and trends.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
AECOM
Summary:
The CEA-IT will deliver a data-driven method to determine areas that are critically eroding due to various factors The tool will be instrumental in identifying these key areas within the Coastal Management Zone.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Inc.
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AECOM
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Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
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Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
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County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Summary:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department planted at least 28 acres of marsh at Dagger Island in Nueces County to protect the eroding shoreline.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project dredged Pirate's Cove channel to provide marsh acreage behind the newly emplaced breakwater from GISP PH III at Dana Cove. An eastern breakwater component along the Pirate's Cove channel will also be included.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi assessed the sediment plumes generated by cultivated oyster mariculture and evaluate the effect of the sediment on seagrasses.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi aided in updating and enhancing the Resource Management Codes (RMCs) and the newly developed GIS viewer, which serves as a tool for leasing state-owned submerged lands.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Harte Research Institute at the Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi generated geospatial information on the suitability of applying Living Shoreline solutions for erosion control and environmental enhancement along bay shorelines of the Texas coast.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
This project provided shoreline protection for approximately 570 acres of intertidal estuarine marsh and tidal flat habitat. The proposed design will construct 9,500 feet of geotextile tube to create 50 acres of intertidal marsh and seagrass.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Park Board
Summary:
This was a beach nourishment project at Dellanera Park beach.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
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County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Isabel
Summary:
The City of Port Isabel built a living shoreline that includes placement of a small near-shore low crested breakwater and construction of a planting area for low marsh vegetation.