Improving Coastal Resilience and Water Quality through Proactive Planning: Phase 2

Project Description

Since 2017, the Texas Coastal Resiliency Master Plan (TCRMP) has been a valuable, long-term, state-led coastal planning platform, providing a vision to protect Texas coastal communities, habitats, and infrastructure. The TCRMP offers a range of nature-based and infrastructure improvement ideas to create a multiple lines of defense approach to comprehensively confront the ever-changing threats to Texas coastal areas. Each iteration of the TCRMP aims to adapt to changing coastal conditions and evolving citizen needs. The third iteration of the TCRMP was released in April 2023 and presented 121 projects that factor in coastal pressures, vulnerabilities, flood and storm surge modeling, socioeconomics, and stated stakeholder community needs. The GLO wants to continue to proactively adapt the TCRMP by expanding modeling efforts that, along with the GLO’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), drive the determination of the TCRMP’s project list. To date, TCRMP project recommendations have been determined and justified, in part, by using the output of anticipated future conditions modeling. Modeling results completed using a combination of SLAMM, SWAN, and ADCIRC, illuminate the dire need for various types of coastal projects to counteract adverse impacts on habitat health and increasing vulnerability of coastal communities into the year 2100.