County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Aransas
Summary:
The City of Port Aransas continued to purchase lands in Charlie's Pasture, approximately 2,000 acres of various sensitive land located on the northwest end of Mustang Island, to protect them from the 17' per year erosion rates along the Ship Channel.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Aransas
Summary:
The City of Port Aransas continued purchasing the additional shoreline lots to insure the halt of erosion along the Ship Channel and the associated uplands and tidal flats.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
National Audubon Society
Summary:
Audubon will purchase a new tractor for island management and complete bird monitoring during nesting season.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
NRDA Trustees
Summary:
This project stabilized and protected Chester’s Island bird rookery in Matagorda Bay using beneficial use sediment sourced from the Matagorda Ship Channel Deepening Project.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
This project was Phase 1 of a multi phase project to protect Children's Beach at Isa Blanca County Park.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Clute
Summary:
The City of Clute developed a digital mapping system for its land use and infrastructure to determine the most appropriate strategy to protect its remaining and surrounding natural areas while maximizing the ecotourism opportunities that they provide.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Corpus Christi
Summary:
The City of Corpus Christi began the development of a City of Corpus Christi Erosion Response Plan to be attached as an Amendment to the existing city Beach Access and Dune Protection Plan.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Galveston
Summary:
The City of Galveston created and published, for public distribution (printed and web-based), maps of revised access points for the City of Galveston beaches in Galveston County, Texas.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Jamaica Beach
Summary:
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Pasadena
Summary:
The City of Pasadena educated the residential and local businesses via various media sources and used a directed, planned and managed outreach program utilizing various media to reach the general public.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Aransas
Summary:
Nueces County took a proactive approach and begin the development of a Nueces County Erosion Response Plan to be attached as an Amendment to the existing Nueces County Beach Management Plan.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Ryan Burke
Summary:
This project will reduce erosion on public infrastructure, stabilize existing shorelines, increase protection of existing wetlands, and create additional wetlands in the City of Port Lavaca at Harbor of Refuge.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
The City of South Padre Island improved the Aquarius Circle and Good Hope Circle beach access sites to enhance public access to the public beaches and protect the dunes seaward of the historic building line.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Chambers Liberty Counties Navigation District
Summary:
The Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District educated the public about the principal coastal problems and the technology available for the protection and improved management of coastal natural resource areas.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Sea Grant College Program
Summary:
Sea Grant College Program continued to carry out the Clean Texas Marina Program for Texas.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of League City
Summary:
The City of League City designed two new kayak launch sites to the paddle trail system.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Clear Creek Drainage District
Summary:
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bayou Preservation Association, Inc.
Summary:
Bayou Preservation Association completed the final phase of the Clear Creek Riparian Restoration project at Challenger Seven Memorial Park.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project produced preliminary engineering to evaluate the nature of bay shore erosion at Clear Lake Park.