County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
This project will involve securing an advisory team of local, state, and federal partners, conducting necessary site assessments/surveys, and hiring an engineering firm to produce a 30-50% design for a living shoreline in West Bay
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Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Summary:
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Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
This project restored approximately 75 acres of intertidal marsh complex within Carancahua Cove at GISP through construction of 81 marsh mounds and 5,415 linear feet of rock breakwater.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Galveston
Summary:
This beach nourishment project addressed storm damage to existing engineered beaches.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project included design and permitting to conduct a 12,000 foot beach nourishment adjacent to the Pirate's Beach, Pirate’s Beach West, and Palm Beach subdivisions.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Galveston
Summary:
This project nourished about 28,000 feet in of Gulf shoreline adjacent to the Sea Isle, Terramar, Kahala Beach Estates, Caribbean Village, Bay Harbor-Gulf, Miramar Beach, Half Moon Beach, and San Luis Estates subdivisions.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project included design and permitting to nourish 7,500 feet of shoreline seaward of the Sands of Kahala, Hershey Beach, Spanish Grant, Sunny Beach, and Bermuda Beach subdivisions and the West Beach Grand and Riviera I & II condominiums.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
This project developed sediment budgets for West Galveston Island in cooperation with the City of Galveston and homeowner associations, as a preliminary task for small-scale beach nourishment projects.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston Park Board
Summary:
This project updated engineering and design specifications to implement and complete a beach nourishment/dune restoration project from the west terminus of the Galveston seawall to the west extent of 8-Mile Road, West Galveston Island.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Corpus Christi Botanical Society, Inc.
Summary:
Corpus Christi Botanical Society, Inc. construcedt a wetland interpretive center in a high visibility urban wetland park for educational use and passive recreation.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Corpus Christi Botanical Society, Inc.
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County/Region:
Calhoun
Project Partner/Recipient:
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
Summary:
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority provided an efficient and reliable delivery system of water necessary for quality habitat that will help sustain waterfowl populations at levels recommended in the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Shoreacres
Summary:
The City of Shoreacres built an observation deck, two walkover bridges over ditches that will provide entry into the park, and a kayak/canoe/small boat launch on Taylor Bayou with an adjacent covered bench kiosk in a new park.
County/Region:
Upper Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University
Summary:
Texas A&M University's Wetland Plant Partnership formed a synergistic relationship with the Stormwater Wetland Program, the Wetland Restoration Program, and partnering organizations to provide native plant materials for demonstration wetlands.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Cooperative Extension
Summary:
The Texas Cooperative Extension established the Dickinson Bayou Restoration Working Group and developed a comprehensive wetland restoration plan for Dickinson Bayou.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Corpus Christi
Summary:
The City of Corpus Christi constructed a viewing platform with an informational kiosk near the wetlands at the north end of Corpus Christi Beach and acquired 18 acres of wetlands west of S.H.181 along the east side of the Rincon Barge Canal.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
City of Shoreacres
Summary:
The City of Shoreacres purchased one acre adjacent to the existing Taylor Bayou wetlands park. The acre is about one-half wetlands and about one-half wooded.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston completed Phase 1 of the Wetlands Study Center, which consists of parking lot construction, pavilion path/boardwalk and signage through the area.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Summary:
Texas A&M University at Galveston enhanced the learning process at the Wetlands Study Center by purchasing microscopes, computers, digital environmental probes, monitoring systems, and laboratory supplies in the wetlands center .