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Coastal Projects

Analysis of Erosion and Subsidence in Texas Coastal Wetlands

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will quantify erosion rates at multiple sites along the Texas coast.

Triangle Tree Rookery Island Habitat Protection Ph 1

Kleberg
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Project will entail preliminary engineering, alternatives analysis, and 70% construction design for a minimum of 900 linear feet in shoreline protection.

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Dagger Point Shoreline Protection Phase I

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Preliminary engineering and design for habitat protection at Dagger Point.

Economic-Natural Resource Benefit-Cost Study of CEPRA Cycle 7-9 Projects

Coast Wide
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
The Texas Legislature requires the General Land Office (GLO) to report the economic and natural resource benefits derived from Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) construction projects every biennium.

Indian Point Causeway Shoreline Protection

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Port of Corpus Christi Authority
The project will build upon previous design efforts to protect the shoreline of Indian Point closest to the causeway where erosion continuously affects 1,900 linear feet of shoreline.

Galveston Park Board Back-passing Nourishment Practices Study

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Galveston Park Board
Galveston Park Board
The Sediment Bedload Collector Project is intended to analyze the efficacy of a sand bypassing/backpassing technology to relocate sediment from accreting areas to those adjacent areas experiencing a sediment deficit.

Port Aransas Nature Preserve Shoreline Protection

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP) City of Port Aransas Airport and Channel Corporation
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Address erosion along the Port Aransas Nature Preserve shoreline.

Adolph Thomae Park Shoreline Protection Phase 3 & 4

Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Cameron County
Cameron County
Project will address the erosion of approximately 620 feet of the Arroyo Colorado shoreline adjacent to Adolph Thomae County Park.

Port Aransas Nature Preserve Shoreline Protection Hurricane Harvey Repair

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
General Land Office
This project will restore portions of a revetment damaged by Hurricane Harvey back to the original post-construction state.

Galveston Island State Park Marsh Restoration and Protection Phase III

Galveston
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
planning, design, and construction of up to 7,550 linear feet of breakwaters in the Butterowe Bayou, Oak Bayou, and Dana Cove areas.

Sargent Beach Breakwater and Beach Nourishment Pilot Study

Matagorda
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Matagorda County
Matagorda County
A study to determine the best erosion mitigation through hard structures.

Data Development and Management for Coastal Protection and Resiliency Planning(Living Shorelines-GIS Tool) - Task 6

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
The Harte Research Institute
Data collection, mapping and modeling will provide data for coastal resource management and resiliency planning.

Dellanera Park Beach Nourishment

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Galveston Park Board
Galveston Park Board
The beach nourishment projects is expected to help widen the beach and provide increased storm protection for infrastructure, structures, dunes, and evacuation routes along this section of shoreline.

Indian Point East Shoreline Protection Phase 2

Nueces
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) NRDA
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
The GLO shall construct Indian Point East Shoreline Erosion Protection project which consists of the construction of approximately 1,800 linear-feet of breakwaters with six segments of 200 to 500 feet with 30-foot gaps, extending from the shoreline revetment.

Structure Relocation

Brazoria
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Relocate structure from public beach from to a location not on the public beach.

McFaddin NWR Beach Ridge Restoration Project Phase 2

Jefferson
Jefferson County Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Jefferson County
Address permit requirements, update and extend a previously compiled sand source investigation, for the beach ridge and beach nourishment along the shoreline at the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge.

Galveston Bay Foundation Oyster Shell Recycling Program

Galveston
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation
The Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) will continue the Galveston Bay Oyster Shell Recycling Program, a program that reclaims spent oyster shell from local seafood restaurants.

Microplastic pollution and its occurrence in the diet of juvenile fish and shrimp in Texas bays

Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University will assess the ingestion of microplastic in juvenile finfish and shellfish in Baffin Bay, Aransas Bay, San Antonio Bay, and Matagorda Bay.

Modeling Freshwater inflows, Nutrient Dynamics and their Relationships to Algal Blooms

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas A&M University–Kingsville will develop reliable and site-specific decision support tools to balance needs for freshwater inflows and reduce impacts of excess nutrient inputs in Nueces Bay.

Quantifying Microplastic (Particles and Fibers) Loading to the Texas’s Coastal Bays and Estuaries

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi will quantify the inputs of microplastics from nine river catchments discharging to Texas coastal bays.