Coastal Projects

Region/County: Cameron

Recipient: Texas Parks and Wildlife

Summary: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will use GOMESA funds to develop engineering and design plans for the removal of the of the Queen Isabella Causeway in South Padre Island, TX

Region/County: Coast Wide

Recipient: Texas Historical Commission

Summary: Project to replace the R. V. Anomaly with a smaller research vessel capable of continuing THC's progressive marine archeology program.

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: Rice University

Summary: Create an accessible & updatable GIS database & web-based graphical user interface.

Region/County: Cameron

Recipient: Texas A&M University Kingsville

Summary: Texas A&M University at Kingsville will establish plant repositories of native vegetation harvested from local dunes and assess dune integrity and vegetation development in Cameron County.

Region/County: Harris

Recipient: Galveston Bay Foundation

Summary: The Galveston Bay Foundation will reclaim spent oyster shell from local seafood restaurants.

Region/County: Upper Coast

Recipient: Armand Bayou Nature Center

Summary: Armand Bayou Nature Center will address three facets of wetlands habitat loss: Marsh Restoration (by employing an innovative process using California bulrush (Shoenoplectus californicus); Prairie Restoration (with the propagation of native prairie grasses); and Prairie Management (by employing the use of prescribed burning, mowing, reintroduction of important plant species, spot removal or treatment of invasive species and monitoring to manage these restored wetland prairies).

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Save Cedar Bayou, Inc.

Summary: Project to conduct a hydraulic analysis to determine the best alternative for maintaining Cedar Bayou as an open pass.

Region/County: Calhoun

Recipient: Texas AgriLife Research

Summary: A shovel-ready construction and financing plan for wetland restoration.

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station

Summary: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station restored Sea Oats, Uniola paniculata, to Galveston Island. It also determined the importance of mycorrhizal fungi and a seaweed-containing organic fertilizer to the re-introduction effort.

Region/County: Calhoun

Recipient: San Antonio Bay Partnership

Summary: The San Antonio Bay Partnership will restore a segment of Bill Day’s Reef, near Port O’Connor, to create a viable nesting site for American Oystercatchers.

Region/County: Brazoria

Recipient: Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Summary: Texas A&M AgriLife Research will assess the hydrological barriers contributing to hypersalinity and marsh loss, identify habitat changes, integrate stakeholder goals with scientific findings, and design an action plan for hydrologic restoration.

Region/County: Lower Coast

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program

Summary: This project will help protect important colonial waterbird habitat along the Texas coast.

Region/County: Coast Wide

Recipient: Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Summary: This project will restore a comprehensive 30+ year dataset from the TCOON consisting of historical and current data along the entire Texas coast by reimagining the Lighthouse data platform.

Region/County: Kleberg

Recipient: Kleberg County

Summary: Renovate the existing public fishing pier at Riviera Beach Park

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Aransas County Navigation District

Summary: A beach repair nourishment project on a bay shoreline to repair the damage from Hurricane Harvey.

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Aransas County Navigation District

Summary: Beach Maintenance and Monitoring Plan project, Rockport Beach

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Aransas County Navigation District #1

Summary: Aransas County Navigation District #1 will repair the concrete bulkhead panel joints along the Rockport Harbor seawall overlooking Aransas Bay, replace the gravel around the tables with asphalt pavement, and install informational signage.

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Aransas County Navigation District

Summary: Rockport Harbor Restroom Facility

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: Galveston County

Summary: Beach nourishment project to beneficially utilize dredged material from the fall 2013 Corps maintenance of the Gulf Intra-Coastal Waterway (GIWW) Rollover Bay Reach.

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: Galveston County

Summary: This project will be conducted under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to beneficially use beach quality sand produced by the USACE during its maintenance dredging of the GIWW to renourish the beaches adjacent to Crystal Beach and possibly other segments of Bolivar Peninsula around the Rollover Pass area.