South Padre Island Beach Nourishment with Beneficial Use of Dredge Material
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of South Padre Island
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA)
City of South Padre Island
Beach nourishment project beneficially using dredged material (BUDM) from the Brownsville Ship Channel.
South Padre Island Beach Nourishment with Beneficial Use of Dredge Material (FY2024 event)
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
Ongoing nourishment of a segment of beach within the City of South Padre Island corporate limits through beneficial use of dredge material.
South Padre Island Beach Nourishment with Beneficial Used of Dredged Material
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
City of South Padre
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
City of South Padre Island
Beach nourishment project using dredged material from the Brownsville Ship Channel.
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center Boardwalks
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
The Town of South Padre Island will construct 1,538 linear feet of a new 6-foot-wide bayside nature trail boardwalk that will connect to an existing boardwalk that extends from the South Padre Island Visitors and Convention Center.
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center Interpretive Signage for Boardwalks
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center installed twenty-three interpretive signs along the boardwalk that extends from the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center to the South Padre Island Convention and Tourism Center. These sign panels provide educational information about South Texas island habitat (beaches, dunes, saltwater and freshwater marshes, intertidal flats), plant and animal life, the Laguna Madre, and the Gulf of Mexico.
South Padre Island CEMS Beach Stabilization Demonstration
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of South Padre Island
South Padre Island CEMS Beach Stabilization Demonstration
South Padre Island Demonstration Project Independent Monitoring Plan and Review
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
General Land Office
In support of the South Padre Island CEMS Shoreline Stabilization Demonstration Project #1459, GLO is using an independent Professional Services Provider (PSP) to develop performance expectations and establish baseline criteria for general and site-specific project design, installation, and a monitoring plan to measure post-construction project performance success/failure. The PSP will also provide third-party independent review.
South Padre Island Dune Restoration
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
The South Padre Island dune restoration project addressed the need to provide safer public access from coastal hazards presented along the gulf Coast.
South Padre Island Dune Restoration
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of South Padre
City of South Padre
This project will be dedicated to restoring two miles of linear beach.
South Padre Island Dune Restoration Volunteer Program
Cameron
South Padre Island Dune Restoration Volunteer Program > Funding Sources
CIty of South Padre Island
The City of South Padre Island
The city of South Padre will install plants to promote dune growth.
South Padre Island Dune Restoration Volunteer Program
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
SPI will stage and host volunteer planting events planting approximately 180,000 indigenous plants.
South Padre Island Erosion Response Plan
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
South Padre Island
Cameron County and its coastal communities will work with the Texas General Land Office to develop a local Erosion Response Plan to be attached as an Amendment to the existing County Beach Access and Dune Protection Plan. Tasks associated with formulation of the plan include development of a Set-Back Line (SBL), identification of opportunities for mitigation, and public outreach
South Padre Island Offshore Sand Source Study Phase 2
Cameron
Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)
City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
Three potential submerged sand resources were investigated to determine the volumes and quality of materials that can be used to nourish South Padre Island beaches.
South Padre Island Wayfinding Sign Project
Cameron
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
City of South Padre
City of South Padre
This project will improve city-wide navigation, increase pedestrian ambulation and provide more definitive demarcation for free public beach parking, beach access and points of interest around South Padre Island.
SPI BN w/ BUDM (2013 Event)
Cameron
Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP)
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
City of South Padre Island
City of South Padre Island
Beach nourishment project using dredged material from the Brownsville Ship Channel.
Spotted Seatrout/Seafood Consumption Safety Study for Galveston Bay
Galveston
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Department of State Health Services
The Texas Department of State Health Services' (DSHS) Seafood and Aquatic Life Group (SALG) will study contaminants of public health concern from the Galveston Bay complex by collecting additional fish and crab samples with emphasis on collecting the target species: spotted seatrout, red drum, black drum, and southern flounder.
Status and Trends of Barrier Wetlands along the Coastal Bend including San Jose, Mustang, and North Padre Islands
Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Bureau of Economic Geology - The University of Texas at Austin
This project will be a joint project between the General Land Office (GLO) and the Bureau of Economic Geology and will use historical and recent aerial photographs supported by field surveys to determine spatial and temporal changes in salt-, brackish- and fresh-water marshes, mangroves, tidal flats, and water bodies on San Jose Island, Mustang Island, and North Padre Island.
Status and Trends of Barrier Wetlands, Padre Island National Seashore (Lower Coast) and the Chenier Plain (Upper Coast)
Lower Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
The University of Texas at Austin-Bureau of Economic Geology
This project will determine the status and trends of wetlands on Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) along the southern Texas coast and the Chenier Plain along the upper Texas coast. Work will include interpreting and mapping wetlands and aquatic habitats depicted on historical and recent aerial photographs, using and revising existing historical data where acceptable.
Status and Trends of Coastal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Coast Wide
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center will implement the second phase of a five phase strategy to evaluate a myriad of issues related to assessing the vulnerability of coastal areas to natural hazards, including: local, state, and federal resources available for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and their application to the TCMP; regulatory regime and effectiveness of construction codes and land use planning policies; best practices and emerging technologies related to building code and land use planning; physical and social vulnerabilities of coastal popul
Status and Trends of Coastal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
Upper Coast
Coastal Management Program (CMP)
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University’s Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HARC) proposes to proceed with the fifth and final phase of a strategy to evaluate a myriad of issues related to assessing the vulnerability of coastal areas to natural hazards, including: local, state, and federal resources available for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and their application to the TCMP; regulatory regime and effectiveness of construction codes and land use planning policies; best practices and emerging technologies related to building code and land use planning; physical and social vulnerabilities o