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Litter Enforcement Officer

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Cameron County Parks System
Cameron County Parks System
Cameron County implemented the Code Enforcement Program by hiring Code Enforcement Officers to enforce the regulation codes.

Living Shorelines

Upper Coast
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Galveston Bay Foundation
Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) will develop an outreach strategy designed to target communities and private landowners where threats to the natural shoreline are greatest, and conversion to a hardened shoreline is likely or immanent.

Living Shorelines Program Website Maintenance

Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Texas State University
Under the direction provided by GLO, TXST will support the GLO in ongoing maintenance of the website throughout the duration of this Contract. Additionally, TXST will create new pages to allow for additional content to be added to the website, as needed.

Lone Pine Farms - Texas Farm & Ranch Conservation

Brazoria
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Galveston Bay Foundation
Project will protect coastal natural resources with the aquisition of agricultural conservation easements.

Lone Pine Farms - Texas Farm & Ranch Conservation Program

Brazoria
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Galveston Bay Foundation
Conservation easement to protect habitat and coastal natural resources.

Long-Term Water Quality Trends in Central-South Texas Estuaries: Relationships with Climatic Variability and Land Use Change

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 long-term water quality trends along the central-south Texas coast and determine potential drivers of water quality change.

Longshore Transport Model, Regions 2 & 3

Aransas
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
The Texas General Land Office (GLO) intends to analyze existing Texas Gulf of Mexico hydrodynamic information and develop a sand transport mode.

Longshore Transport Modeling

Coast Wide
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
This project will analyze existing Texas Gulf of Mexico hydrodynamic information and develop a sand transport model for the entire Texas coast to identify the sand transport pathways, sand transport rates and define the littoral cells and associated sediment budget for sand and other sediments along the Texas Gulf facing beaches.

Lower Laguna Madre Hydrodynamic Characterization

Cameron
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA)
Cameron County
Cameron County, in partnership with Research Applied Technology Education Services, Inc. (RATES), will 1) expand the River and Estuary Observation Network-Rio Grande Valley’s network of Real-Time-Hydrologic-Systems (RTHS) stations.

Lower Laguna Madre Regional Treatment Wetland System - Phase 1

Cameron
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) will design and construct a five-acre wetland system at Ramsey Park.

Lower Rio Grande & Rio Bravo Water Quality Initiative

Cameron
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Establish procedures on both sides of the border to protect water quality in the Rio Grande & Rio Bravo.

Lower Rio Grande Valley Low Impact Development Outreach Education and Demonstration Program

Cameron
Lower Rio Grande Valley Low Impact Development Outreach Education and Demonstration Program > Funding Sources Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Texas A&M University at Kingsville (TAMUK) will design and construct a bioretention system to remove pollutants from stormwater runoff and improve water quality at a selected colonia in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Water Quality Initiative Phase I

Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP) University of Texas at Austin – LBJ School of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin – LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin - LBJ School of Public Affairs will: (1) protect human health by ensuring clean water for consumption, irrigation, and safe recreation; (2) encourage the restoration and protection of riparian, coastal marsh and wetland areas, improving water quality and natural flood protection; (3) improve the effectiveness and efficiency of water resource management and pollution control; and (4) encourage sustainable economic growth.

M.A.P. (Mapping, Atlas, Public Outreach Project)

Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Armand Bayou Nature Center
Promoting public favor and interest of the Armand Bayou Coastal Preserve & Armand Bayou Nature Center.

Mad Island Marsh Preserve Shoreline Protection & Coastal Ecosystem Restoration Phase I

Matagorda
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Nature Conservancy
This project will address the permitting and final design for shoreline protection at Mad Island Marsh Preserve.

Mad Island Shoreline Protection and Ecosystem Restoration

Matagorda
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Texas Nature Conservancy Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Mad Island Shoreline Protection and Ecosystem Restoration > Funding Sources
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy will construct approximately 2.5 miles of permanent offshore, rock breakwater structure along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) in Matagorda County along the shoreline of the Mad Island Wildlife Management Area, an estuarine wetland ecosystem managed by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. Project completion will result in permanent protection of critically important terrestrial and marine wildlife habitats by mitigating the effects of wave energy on unprotected shorelines and mitigating threats of saltwater intrusion into brackish and freshwater coastal marshes.

Mad Island Shoreline Protection and Ecosystem Restoration Phase III

Matagorda
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) The Nature Conservancy Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA)
The Nature Conservancy, Texas Chapter
This project will implement Phase III of a habitat restoration and shoreline stabilization project.

Mad Island Wildlife Management Area Shoreline Protection Phase 2

Matagorda
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Project will protect shoreline, wetland, marsh and habitat.

Mad Island WMA Prairie and Wetland Restoration

Matagorda
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas RICE Perci-La-Con PBS&J
Texas RICE
Texas RICE constructed an approximately 35-acre wetland and restored 30 acres of abandoned farmland into native prairie on the Mad Island Wildlife Management Area, which provides significant value to wildlife and water quality.

Magnolia and Indianola Beach Pavilions

Calhoun
Coastal Management Program (CMP) Calhoun County
Calhoun County
Calhoun County will construct two pavilions for public use in the Miller Point area with the goal of encouraging ecotourism and outdoor education. Use of the pavilions will be free of charge. A 100'x50' general-use pavilion will be built at least 300’ from the water and a 25’ hexagonal pavilion will be constructed near Indianola beach.