County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
The project beneficially used beach-quality sand dredged from Brazos-Santiago Pass by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during maintenance dredging of the Brownsville Ship Channel on South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Lamar University
Summary:
Lamar University will improve the Southeast Texas Flood Control District (SETxFCD) low-cost sensor network by replacing 34 systems with more reliable commercial grade AWARE sensors.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This project placed BUDM material to reduce and possibly prevent loss of property and public infrastructure and preserve beach on South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This was a beach nourishment project on South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Cameron
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project developed performance expectations and established baseline criteria for general and site-specific project design, installation, and a monitoring plan to measure post-construction project performance success/failure on South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Department of State Health Services
Summary:
Department of State Health Services studied contaminants of public health concern from the Galveston Bay complex by collecting additional fish and crab samples with emphasis on collecting certain species.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
CEPRA funding was used to design and construct a shoreline protection structure at Starvation Cove on the south shoreline of West Bay near Galveston Island State Park to protect 415 acres of critical habitat.
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project partnered with Jefferson County to evaluate erosion response alternatives and develop a preliminary engineering design to construct a short segment of shore protection along Highway 82.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas used historical and recent aerial photographs to determine spatial and temporal changes in marshes, mangroves, tidal flats, and water bodies on San Jose Island, Mustang Island, and North Padre Island.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas determined the status and trends of wetlands on Padre Island National Seashore along the southern Texas coast and the Chenier Plain along the upper Texas coast.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
Texas A&M University completed a status and trends study of coastal vulnerability to natural hazards of counties in the Texas Coastal Management Program (CMP) boundary.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
Texas A&M University evaluated the content of the State of Texas Mitigation Plan and identified best practices and related to hazard mitigation and land use planning that could further mitigate against the potential impacts of coastal natural hazards.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
Texas A&M University collected and compiled data to improve local and state government hazard preparedness for the Galveston, Brazoria, and Harris county areas.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The Bureau of Economic Geology continued the coast-wide study of wetlands in inland environments of the Texas coast.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas determined spatial and temporal changes in inland marshes, mangroves, tidal flats, forested and riparian wetlands, and water bodies in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program determined spatial and temporal changes in inland marshes, mangroves, tidal flats, forested and riparian wetlands, and water bodies in the Corpus Christi-Coastal Bend area.