Coastal Projects

Region/County: Brazoria

Recipient: Treasure Island Municipal Utility District

Summary: This project is the construction of a shoreline protection structure (stone revetment).

Region/County: Brazoria

Recipient: Treasure Island Mud

Summary: This project will construct a shoreline protection structure (subterraneous stone revetment) that will connect the existing stone revetment terminating near the southeastern extent of Gulf Beach Drive into the CR257 bridge abutment.

Region/County: Brazoria

Recipient: General Land Office

Summary: This project included a condition assessment and coastal engineering analysis on a revetment structure constructed along a segment of Gulf shoreline adjacent to the San Luis Pass fishing pier at Treasure Island.

Region/County: Matagorda

Recipient: University of Texas Marine Science Institute

Summary: This project will address the secondary and cumulative impacts (i.e., point and nonpoint sources of pollution) to the bay, both of which are in support of the goals of the §309 Enhancement Grant. The objectives of this project are: 1) identify the causes of low dissolved oxygen values in the Tres Palacios harbor area, 2) identify possible solutions to the causes of the low dissolved oxygen, and 3) conduct some education and outreach activities to inform the users of the harbor of the water quality problems and solutions.

Region/County: Kleberg

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)

Summary: Project will entail preliminary engineering, alternatives analysis, and 70% construction design for a minimum of 900 linear feet in shoreline protection.

Region/County: Kleberg

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP)

Summary: Phase 2,this project, is the construction phase of protecting the Triangle Tree Rookery Island.  

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: General Land Office

Summary: The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) proposes to undertake research and survey work to explore for, identify, and investigate fluvial and other sand deposits within and proximal to the Trinity River paleovalley, offshore of Galveston, Texas.

Region/County: Aransas

Recipient: Aransas First

Summary: Aransas First developed a master plan for a public nature park on the lower Tule Creek, develop and create educational and informational materials, and design and construct a 320-foot extension to the existing viewing boardwalk with interpretive signs in order to use the combined 10-plus acres as a nature education area demonstrating the benefits of habitat and wetland restoration.

Region/County: Chambers

Recipient: Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District

Summary: Secure and protect into perpetuity the northwest shoreline of Turtle Bayou.

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: Galveston County

Summary: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Erosion response Feasibility Study

Region/County: Harris

Recipient: University of Houston - Clear Lake

Summary: The Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH) at the University of Houston at Clear Lake will determine the most effective restoration method for Texas’ coastal grassland habitat.

Region/County: Upper Coast

Recipient: Texas A&M University - Galveston (TAMU-G)

Summary: Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will work to understand the near term (1-2 yr) ecosystem responses within East Bay to the closure of Rollover Pass

Region/County: Nueces

Recipient: Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Summary: Texas A&M University - Galveston (TAMU-G) will study the drivers of “red tide” blooms in Nueces-Corpus Christi Bay.

Region/County: Nueces

Recipient: City of Corpus Christi

Summary: Develop engineering specifications and plans to construct public access & facilities and beach profile surveys.

Region/County: Matagorda

Recipient: Matagorda County

Summary: Review current beach access sites to determine which sites are still feasible

Region/County: Galveston

Recipient: The University of Texas at Austin

Summary: The University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), will determine the most recent long-term rates of shoreline change along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline of Texas by comparing previously determined past shoreline positions with positions interpreted from the most recent suitable aerial photographs available at the time the study.

Region/County: Coast Wide

Recipient: University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology (UTBEG)

Summary: This project will update the historical shoreline change rates that were last updated in 2000. These shoreline change rates are essential for identifying critical erosion areas and for identifying areas where coastal protection projects are needed.

Region/County: Lower Coast

Recipient: Texas Sea Grant

Summary: The goal of this project will be to update the Texas Public Access Inventory and enhance the Texas General Land Office (TGLO) Beach and Bay Access Guide (BBAG)

Region/County: Coast Wide

Recipient: Texas A&M University - Sea Grant College Program

Summary: Updating and Enhancing the Texas Public Access Inventory - Phase Two

Region/County: Coast Wide

Recipient: Ducks Unlimited,

Summary: Ducks Unlimited will produce updated wetland maps from Galveston to the Texas-Louisiana border using the most current available imagery, data, and mapping techniques, as the wetland inventory of the region is severely outdated.