County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca continued the restoration of the Port Lavaca Causeway Fishing Pier, replacing approximately 500 feet of handrails, 100 feet of deck planks, and 100 feet of cross braces.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca constructed approximately 150 linear feet of new public fishing pier to begin closing the gap between the landward end of the Port Lavaca Causeway Fishing Pier and the pier section that was isolated by a fire in 2003.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
The City of Port Lavaca replaced approximately 500 feet of handrails, 100 feet of deck planks, and 100 feet of cross braces on the fishing pier.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Lavaca
Summary:
Port Lavaca minimized erosion of its bayfront peninsula by erecting approximately 600 linear feet of 10-foot steel sheet piling around the peninsula shoreline.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Ryan Burke
Summary:
This project is a first phase feasibility study and coastal engineering analysis to evaluate existing conditions and hydrodynamic processes for the project site and characterize design parameters.
County/Region:
Willacy
Project Partner/Recipient:
Willacy County Naigation District
Summary:
County/Region:
Willacy
Project Partner/Recipient:
Port Mansfield Chamber of Commerce
Summary:
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Neches
Summary:
The City of Port Neches surveyed the extent of submerged debris and dilapidated structures and remove the identified hazards.
County/Region:
Jefferson
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Port Neches
Summary:
The City of Port Neches developed a comprehensive plan to better define the overall site design and further refine components of the master plan, providing readily accessible information and data as development opportunities become available.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program completed marsh restoration and public access improvements along a section of U.S. Highway 181 that crosses the mouth of Nueces Bay between Corpus Christi and Portland.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project examined the area from Surfside Beach to Bolivar Peninsular to assess the shoreline impacts and damage from Tropical Storm Fay.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi will conduct post-nourishment benthic sampling following beach nourishment at Jamaica and Sargent beaches.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will use funding to conduct beach benthic macrofaunal monitoring to assess time for the benthic invertebrate community to recover following a beach nourishment event at the City of South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
This GLO-led project included engineering and design of a living shoreline from the mouth of Powderhorn Lake southeast to the terminous of Boggy Bayou to protect and preserve critical habitats and marshes from high energy wave action.
County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas - Bureau of Economic Geology created a geoenvironmental atlas for Powderhorn Ranch. The atlas highlights the geologic, geomorphic and wetland features, coastal hazards and natural history unique to the ranch.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Armand Bayou Nature Center
Summary:
Armand Bayou Nature Center (ANBC) propagated native grasses and wildflowers and installed them in the ABNC prairie during community events.
County/Region:
Coastwide
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will use funding to conduct beach benthic macrofaunal monitoring to assess time for the benthic invertebrate community to recover following a beach nourishment event at the City of South Padre Island.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
Texas A&M University created a reliable design and evaluation tool for coastal wetlands in Texas.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston studied the impacts of dredging operations on sedimentary processes in the Houston Ship Channel (HSC), a key component in the determination of the fate of dioxins in this system.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program will identify strategies and solutions for long-term restoration of Mustang Island.