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Coastal Projects

McAllis Point Estuarine Habitat Restoration

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Estuary Restoration Act (ERA) NRG Texas Power Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
In September of 2009, the GLO received an Estuary Restoration Act grant through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for approximately $915,000 to restore approximately 75 acres of inter-tidal marsh complex habitat within a 108-acre area along the north West Galveston Island shoreline adjacent to West Galveston Bay in order to enhance and protect existing estuarine and coastal habitats. This project is being matched with CEPRA money and $100,000 from NRG Texas Power in in-kind plant donations.

McAllis Point Land Acquisition

Galveston
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) proposes to use FY 2007 to purchase approximately 67 acres of coastal habitat at McAllis Point, located in Galveston County

McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge - Salt Bayou Dune Restoration

Jefferson
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
General Land Office
McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge - Salt Bayou Dune Restoration

McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge Beach Ridge Restoration

Chambers
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Impact Assistance Program County Funding Coatal Impact Assistance Program County Funding 2009 Jefferson County Coastal Impact Assistance Program County Funding
Jefferson County
To provide nourishment of a beach ridge & adjacent beach along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline.

McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge Dune Stabilization

Jefferson
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge
This project proposes to place sand fencing along one mile of McFaddin NWR. This is a low-cost methodology to help the dune system adjacent to the refuge rebuild itself after being damaged by Hurricane Ike.

McFaddin NWR Beach Ridge Restoration

Jefferson
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
General Land Office
Reduce the rate of shoreline erosion and loss of the exisiting beach ridge.

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.

McFaddin Salt Bayou Dune Restoration Beach Ridge Stabilization

Galveston
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) Jefferson County U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Jefferson County, General Land Office
Focus on data collection, including bathymetric and topographic surveys, and data analysis.

McFaddin Willow Lake Restoration

Jefferson
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
The Nature Conservancy
Install earthen terraces to decrease water turbidity and increase submerged aquatic vegetation.

McGee Beach - Beach Nourishment

Nueces
City of Corpus Christi Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of Corpus Christi
Project will provide beach nourishment at McGee Beach

Measurement & Characterization of Bay Shoreline Changes

Coast Wide
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
The University of Texas at Austin
To improve the management, protection, and restoration of the bay shorelines by topographic lidar data.

Memorial Park Preserve

Aransas
Coastal Management Program (CMP) City of Rockport
City of Rockport
The City will acquire approximately 20-acres of undisturbed Live Oak/Red Bay habitat with a 3-acre fresh water pond located to the west and to the south of the Memorial Park property line.

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.

Mission and Aransas Rivers Implementation Plan to Improve Water Quality

Refugio
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Texas A&M AgrilLIfe Research
Facilitate implementation of plan and monitor water quality.

Mission Lake Restoration

Calhoun
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas R.I.C.E. Texas Parks and Wildlife
Texas R.I.C.E.
Texas R.I.C.E. will eradicate more than 200 acres of invasive water hyacinth from Mission Lake of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Guadalupe Delta Wildlife Management Area.

Modeled Inflow Validation & Nutrient Loading Estimation in Two Subwatersheds of the Lower Laguna Madre

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP) University of Texas - Pan American
University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
Characterize nutrient loading rates for subwatersheds by monitoring stream flow & water quality.

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.

Modernizing Texas Beach Watch Technology System

Coast Wide
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA)
General Land Office
The GLO will modernize the Beach Watch system and expand its capabilities to allow predictive modeling which will provide real-time, modeled information for the beach patron

Monitoring and Analysis of Sediment and Nutrients and their associated pollutants

Nueces
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Texas A&M University - Kingsville will monitor sediment and nutrients loads into the Nueces/Corpus Christi Bay and address identified pollutant data gaps.

Monitoring Design Criteria and Biological Indicators for Seagrass Monitoring in the CBBEP Study Area

Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program
This project will identify the plant, water column, and landscape indicators that provide the most critical information on water quality criteria that is relevant to successful maintenance and growth of seagrasses.