County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Aransas County Navigation District
Summary:
The Aransas County Navigation District installed a fixed, self-service pumpout and dump station at Cove Harbor, south of Rockport, which boaters can use to remove sanitary wastes from vessels for appropriate collection and treatment
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Summary:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station determined the extent to which Sargassum protects the beach and reduces erosion and whether Sargassum enhances or inhibits the growth of dune plants.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Summary:
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station investigated sargassum's effect upon erosion and sargassum's benefits to animals.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
Matagorda County will rebuild 5,610 linear feet of road next to County Road 238 at Sargent Beach, Matagorda County.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
This project restored and maintained an increasingly popular but critically-eroded public beach in Matagorda County.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
This project nourished approximately 2,500 feet of highly eroding land at Sargent Beach.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Sargent Chamber of Commerce
Summary:
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
Matagorda County constructed the Sargent Chamber of Commerce Parking Area and boat launching ramp.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
This study constituted the third phase of an adaptive management approach to develop an integrated plan of erosion control structures and beach nourishment for an approximately 4,000 linear foot-long area east of Mitchell's cut at Sargent Beach west.
County/Region:
Matagorda
Project Partner/Recipient:
Matagorda County
Summary:
This project scope encompasses construction proposal solicitation support and construction management for the breakwater and terminal groin system installation at Sargent Beach.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Trust for Public Land
Summary:
Trust for Public Land enabled a local Galveston Bay community to plan and implement strategies to conserve open space on a local level, for multiple benefits, with emphasis on Coastal Natural Resource Areas.
County/Region:
Chambers
Project Partner/Recipient:
Trust for Public Land
Summary:
The Trust for Public Land conducted a demonstration project in Chambers County, allowing the opportunity to develop short and long term evaluation techniques to see whether these types of planning efforts are meritorious in terms of coastal planning.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Trust for Public Land
Summary:
Trust for Public Land conducted greenprinting for community-based natural resource and public access planning in a rural area in Texas for the first time to provide a model for work that could be accomplished in other rural coastal counties.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas Tech University focused on using recent research findings and then developing practical means for illustrating scenic recommendations through design and land use planning recommendations.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Inc.
Summary:
The Gulf of Mexico Foundation established an annual Matagorda Island shoreline cleanup, created a Whooping Crane curriculum product, and established an annual Seagrass Festival in the Redfish Bay State Scientific Study Area community.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Summary:
University of Houston- Clear Lake conducted research to monitor multiple habitat restoration sites within the Galveston Bay system.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Summary:
The University of Houston-Clear Lake employed students to conduct research to monitor multiple habitat restoration sites within the Galveston Bay system.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
The City of South Padre Island added amenities to the Sea Island Circle Public Beach Access, including public restrooms, changing rooms, and a rinse station.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Summary: