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Bay Day Celebration

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation
The Galveston Bay Foundation will sponsor Bay Day. This event calls attention to and celebrates Galveston Bay by providing fun activities for all ages, increasing public awareness of the bay’s value, resources, and diversity of uses.

Cameron County Beach Maintenance Program

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
General Land Office
The Cameron County Parks and Recreation Department and the Cameron County Public Works Division will maintain and clean approximately 13.72 miles or 72,432 linear feet of unincorporated public beaches.

Phase 2 Texas Coastal Management Performance Measurement System

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
GeoTechnology Research Institute
The Houston Advanced Research Center will support the CMP in its implementation of Phase 2 of the NCMPMS. The CMP is tasked with implementing the NCMPMS, a program aimed at quantifying the national impact of the CZMA, over three phases. The NCMPMS consists of performance and contextual indicators across six categories. Phase 2 will include collecting and reporting on indicators for two categories: Public Access and Government Coordination and Decision Making.

Texas Coastal Stormwater Treatment Wetland Design Manual

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas Cooperative Extension Third Party Funding
Texas Cooperative Extension
Texas Cooperative Extension will develop a “how-to” manual for the creation of stormwater treatment wetlands for the Texas Gulf Coast region with step-by-step guidelines that begin with site selection and run through the completion of planting and monitoring.

Water Quality Protection and Storage Characteristics of Freshwater Wetlands in the Galveston Bay Watershed

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Galveston Bay Estuary Program
The Galveston Bay Estuary Program (GBEP) will select an independent researcher to evaluate the capacity and role of freshwater wetlands in providing floodwater storage and processing pollutants in the Galveston Bay system. The evaluation will demonstrate the economic and ecological value of protecting the freshwater wetland resources, and serve as a model for other areas of the Texas coast.

Status and Trends of Coastal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Texas A&M University
Changing land use patterns, population growth, relative sea-level rise, limited regulation of construction practices, and reduced institutional history on storm response may be exponentially increasing the vulnerability of the Texas coast to natural hazards. The Texas Coastal Management Plan calls for subdivisions participating in the National Flood Insurance Program to adopt ordinances or orders governing development in special hazard areas under the statutes in the Water Code, Local Government Code, and the National Flood Insurance Act.

Status and Trends of Inland Wetland and Aquatic Habitats of the Corpus Christi Area

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program will contract with the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, to determine spatial and temporal changes in inland marshes, mangroves, tidal flats, forested and riparian wetlands, and water bodies in the Corpus Christi-Coastal Bend area.

Status and Trends of Dune Volume, Morphology, and Vegetative Cover along the Texas Gulf Shoreline

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
This project will analyze airborne topographic LIDAR in combination with new and historical optical imagery and ground surveys to understand the status and trends of the beach/dune system and to monitor the susceptibility of the coast to storm damage.

Saving Our Coastal Heritage – Texas Rural County Demonstration Project

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
The Trust for Public Land
The Saving Our Coastal Heritage – Texas Rural County Demonstration Project is an initiative of the Trust for Public Land (TPL) that will provide guidance for Texas coastal communities in accomplishing this conservation, on a local watershed or county level, for multiple benefits. This demonstration project will be conducted in Chambers County, which is a rural county in the lower watershed of Galveston Bay.

Taylor Bayou Wetlands Acquisition

Harris
Coastal Management Program (CMP) City of Shoreacres
City of Shoreacres
The City of Shoreacres will buy and develop a passive-use park of four acres with frontage on two branches of Taylor Bayou.

South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center Boardwalks

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP) South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
The Town of South Padre Island will construct 1,538 linear feet of a new 6-foot-wide bayside nature trail boardwalk that will connect to an existing boardwalk that extends from the South Padre Island Visitors and Convention Center.

Smith Point Constructed Wetland

Chambers
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Trinity Bay Conservation District
Trinity Bay Conservation District
Trinity Bay Conservation District will construct and develop a surface-flow-constructed wetland to properly treat the wastewater within the Smith Point community.

Port Lavaca Causeway Fishing Pier Renovations

Calhoun
Coastal Management Program (CMP) City of Port Lavaca
City of Port Lavaca
The City of Port Lavaca will construct 150 linear feet of new public fishing pier to begin closing the gap between the landward end of the Port Lavaca Causeway Fishing Pier and the pier section that was isolated by a fire in 2003.

Matagorda Bay Nature Park Trail, Wetlands Boardwalk, & Kayak Launch

Matagorda
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Lower Colorado River Authority
Lower Colorado River Authority
The Lower Colorado River Authority will construct a trail, elevated wetlands boardwalk and permanent kayak launch pad at Matagorda Bay Nature Park.

Burnet Bay Wetlands Restoration

Harris
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation
The Galveston Bay Foundation will restore marsh habitat within the heavily subsided 95-acre segment of Burnet Bay adjacent to Crosby-Lynchburg Road and raise awareness and appreciation of Burnet Bay habitats among local community members, governments and the various users of Burnet Bay.

Goose Island Marsh Restoration in Aransas Bay

Aransas
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department will restore wetland habitats that are integral parts of the Texas gulf coast and the Aransas Bay estuarine ecosystems.

Science-Based Monitoring of Created Wetlands and Restored Habitat within the Galveston Bay System

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) University of Houston at Clearlake Galveston Bay Foundation PBS&J Environmental Toxicology Laboratory RWR Environmental Consulting
University of Houston at Clearlake
The University of Houston-Clear Lake, in partnership with the Galveston Bay Foundation, will monitor habitat restoration sites within the Galveston Bay system to look at the impact of restoration on plants and animals.

Sargassum: Erosion and Biodiversity at the Beach

Galveston
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station will examine the effects on erosion of Sargassum washing up on the beaches of Galveston and look at its impact on animals.

Oyster Reef Mapping in Copano Bay

Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University at Galveston Department of Health & Human Services
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Texas A&M University at Galveston will map the bottom of Copano Bay to identify and delineate oyster reefs and other bottom features.

Marsh Accretion Rates at Restored and Natural Sites in Galveston Bay: Will Sea-Level Rise Drown Them?

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station will set up a monitoring system composed primarily of Sediment Erosion Tables (SET) that will allow researchers to quantify the accretion rate in various restored and natural marshes along the upper Texas coast.