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
Summary:
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.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Engineering Experiment Station
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Engineering Experiment Station will develop a framework for generating wave information along the nearshore Texas coast.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas State University developed an engagement campaign to highlight the several online resources the Clean Coast Texas program has developed to their intended audiences.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas State University, through its Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, developed a website for the Living Shorelines Program to use in the program’s outreach, engagement and implementation.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas State continued to build on previous efforts of the Clean Coast Texas program with outreach and engagement to support implementation of the Guidance for Sustainable Stormwater Drainage on the Texas Coast by coastal communities.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi initiated a standard sanitary survey program to characterize and categorize Texas beaches, assess potential sources of pollution and predict water quality based on existing data.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston developed a 3D, intertidal sediment transport model that represents the physical characteristics of Galveston Bay (e.g., particle size distribution; sediment erosion, re-suspension and deposition).
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Atkins North America, Inc.
Summary:
Atkins developed an application package for a coast-wide regional general permit for beach nourishment as well as the associated biological assessments in the Texas upper coast and lower coast regions.
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Environmental Learning and Research Center, Inc.
Summary:
Environmental Learning and Research Center, Inc. will develop a Master Plan for the Environmental Learning and Research Center located on 1,200 acres of wooded wetlands along the Neches River.
County/Region:
San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Summary:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station evaluated alternative soil test phosphorus extractants and determined soil test phosphorus critical values for the dominant crop production soils in the Corpus Christi Bay watershed.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Southmost Soil & Water Conservation District
Summary:
Southmost Soil and Water Conservation District provided agricultural producers an opportunity to comply with state water quality laws through a voluntary, incentive-based approach.