County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M at Galveston processed 2013 bathymetric and side scan sonar data, continued beach profiling to collect winter profiles at the same location as the summer profiles, and collected land-based LIDAR at Follett's Island.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The project consisted of dredging 300,000 cubic yards of sand from Rollover Bay and placing the sand on the beach.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This project restored approximately 19,000 cubic yards of sand eroded from a previously nourished beach by Hurricane Rita in September 2005.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
National Audubon Society, d.b.a. Audubon Texas
Summary:
Audubon Texas assembled GIS data and built a spatial, habitat-based model to predict the risk of islands along the GIWW becoming unusable for nesting due to poor habitat or erosion damage.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute
Summary:
The University of Texas explored the causes and the spatial and temporal extent of hypoxia and created a GIS data base for existing data to aid management of this problem and protect coastal resources.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Texas City
Summary:
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project protected 45,000 acres of wetlands by stabilizing and reconstructing over one mile of shoreline along a reach of the GIWW at the McFaddin NWR in Jefferson County.
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project addressed continued GIWW bank erosion and inundation of higher salinity water to help maintain the fresh and intermediate conditions in the wetlands of the refuge. Approximately 10,000 acres of fresh to intermediate marsh was protected.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This beach nourishment project beneficially utilized dredged material from the state FY2017, 2018, 2019 Corps maintenance dredging of the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway (GIWW) Rollover Bay Reach segments for the maintenance renourishment of Caplen Beach.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This beach nourishment project beneficially utilized dredged material from the fall 2014 Corps maintenance of the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway (GIWW) Rollover Bay Reach.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This beach nourishment project beneficially utilized dredge material from the February 2012 Corps maintenance of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW).
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This beach nourishment project beneficially utilized dredged material from the fall 2013 Corps maintenance of the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway (GIWW) Rollover Bay Reach.
County/Region:
San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
San Patricio County
Summary:
The Texas General Land Office's Survey Sciences Division conducted a pro bono Costal Boundary Survey in preparation for the implementation of a living shoreline on state owned submerged land to protect a portion of San Patricio County Road 2250.
County/Region:
Statewide Coastal
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Statewide Coastal
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project included annual beach monitoring profile surveys in accordance with the GLO Beach Monitoring and Maintenance Plan-BMMP.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Summary:
The Harte Research Institute reviewed Title 31 to indentify Coastal Coordination Act Language missing from Texas Administrative Code 505.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas State made the final revisions needed for the living shoreline website to be published online for public view. Once the website was launched, TXSTATE supported the General Land Office in routine, ongoing maintenance of the website.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Summary:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department restored wetland habitats that are integral parts of the Texas Gulf coast and the Aransas Bay estuarine ecosystems. The project restored 24 acres of intertidal emergent marsh on the north side of Goose Island.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Summary:
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project completed an alternatives analysis to protect valuable ecological habitat within Goose Island State Park by evaluating methods of stabilizing the southern shoreline.