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.
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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
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Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
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County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Village of Surfside Beach
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County/Region:
Galveston
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County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Summary:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department removed the existing 2' x 6' wood plank decking on eleven dune walkovers at Sea Rim State Park Beach Unit and repaired damaged 2' x 12' stringers. T
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Internal GLO Study
Summary:
This project will provide surveys of engineered beaches as required by the Beach Monitoring and Maintenance Plan.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
Project provided surveys of engineered beaches as required by the Beach Monitoring and Maintenance Plan.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston took annual measurements (cross-shore) beach profiles every two miles from Freeport, Texas to the geotubes east of Rollover Pass on Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston County (corresponding to about 38 profiles).
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This project continued maintenance BUDM renourishment projects between the Town, the County, the Port of Brownsville, the GLO and the USACE.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This project widened a portion of the beach within SPI by moving up to 150,000 CY of sand to the beach from Park Road 100 and its right-of-way.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This project renourished an erosion hotspot within the northern portion of the City of South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
American Bird Conservancy
Summary:
American Bird Conservancy (ABC)engaged with the public and land managers on beach-nesting bird stewardship. ABC worked with partners and identified areas where birds are breeding, informed land resource managers, and monitored reproductive output.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
American Bird Conservancy
Summary:
The American Bird Conservancy promoted the survival of declining coastal breeding birds through protecting coastal natural resource areas and collecting and analyzing demographic data for targeted bird species.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas - Bureau of Ecnomic Geology
Summary:
This project updated long-term shoreline change rates incorporating 2012 data.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology (UTBEG)
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County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas
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County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Summary:
Ducks Unlimited, Inc. will directly build upon the Phase I effort and advance two priority sites—Causeway Bird Island (rookery island construction) and PA9-S (marsh creation)—from 60% to 90% project designs.