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.
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
A follow-on to work conducted under Cycle 2, this project involved the construction of offshore rock breakwaters and the creation of habitat in the protected area between the breakwaters and Goose Island.
County/Region:
Chambers
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Gordy Marsh project built approximately 9,000 linear feet of shoreline and applied long term shoreline protection to the project site by building a nearshore breakwater to maintain the existing shoreline and protect native wetlands.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
AgriLife produced a web-hosted video to showcase green infrastructure projects and explained how green infrastructure improves water quality, reduces flood risks, and provides habitat.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Calhoun County
Summary:
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
West Galveston Bay Landowners Group/ Ducks Unlimited
Summary:
This project was the alternatives analysis phase of a shoreline protection project for the design and permitting of 9,200 linear feet of shoreline protection along the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway near West Galveston Bay.