County/Region:
Brazoria
Project Partner/Recipient:
Village of Surfside Beach
Summary:
The Village of Surfside constructed three portable beach cabanas to provide improved shoreline services to beach visitors.
County/Region:
Harris
Project Partner/Recipient:
Houston Parks Board
Summary:
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
County/Region:
Aransas
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD)
Summary:
This project is Phase 1 of an effort to protect approximately 2.5 miles of shoreline and 280 acres of estuarine marsh habitat at Newcomb Point and Newcomb Bend, collectively referred to as Newcomb Marsh, in Copano Bay.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Nueces County
Summary:
Nueces County built a new gulf access road way to enhance tourist usage of gulf beaches.
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas compiled a nutrient database and related parameters, analysed space-time distribution of nutrients in the Coastal Bend bays, and acquired and compiled sonde measurements of salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen.
County/Region:
Kenedy
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Summary:
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi developed a conceptual model of nutrient inputs to the bay and the groundwater and surface water inputs to the Laguna Salada.
County/Region:
Galveston
Project Partner/Recipient:
Galveston County
Summary:
This sand source study looked at developing a potential sediment inventory and volume determination of the Bolivar Roads Houston-Galveston Ship Channel north jetty area and amend an existing USACE permit to incorporate potential borrow site(s).
County/Region:
Lower Coast
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program raised bottom elevation to support low-marsh communities, designing channels for adequate circulation through the raised areas, and planting appropriate vegetation.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Port of Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA)
Summary:
This construction project will restored and protected 16,300 linear feet of shoreline along the Nueces Bay by constructing a nearshore breakwater and living shoreline.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program initiated dredge-and-fill operations tp create another 15+ acres of marsh complex (with a high percentage of planting area) within the 80 acre marsh containment.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program re-planted areas that were not successful during past events at the Nueces Bay Marsh Project site and planted smooth cordgrass along the fringe of the terraces to further enhance the marsh site.
County/Region:
Nueces, San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
This project constructed and reinforced a breakwater to prevent further erosion of restored marsh on the northern portion of Indian Point Peninsula.
County/Region:
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
County/Region:
San Patricio
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program
Summary:
The Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program created a parking and staging area for fisherman and paddle craft users, installed bollards to keep vehicles in the designated parking areas, and constructed an ADA-accessible elevated platform in Nueces Bay.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)
Summary:
This project constructed additional erosion protection reduction structures around the Nueces Bay Rookery Islands and placed fill to restore habitat.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
University of Texas at Austin
Summary:
The University of Texas developed a model for Total Maximum Daily Load for zinc in Nueces Bay.
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
Texas General Land Office
Summary:
County/Region:
Nueces
Project Partner/Recipient:
The Center for Progressive Studies and Culture, Inc.
Summary:
The Center for Progressive Studies and Culture, Inc. performed sediment collection and analysis for zinc in Nueces Bay and the Inner Harbor.