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Captain Crab Clean Beach Media & Education Campaign

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council Various Regional Media Outlets

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: This project utilizes multiple programs to combat beach litter, to raise awareness, and to educate the public about the environmental and legal consequences of littering. Litter threatens natural resources and is dangerous to marine life and local wildlife. It leads to expensive clean-up costs and causes unattractive and unhealthy shorelines. As an ongoing project, many changes have occurred over the last few years. Captain Crab and his friends have begun visiting approximately 26,000 fourth-grade students at over 200 elementary schools throughout the four-county region.

Captain Crab Clean Beach Media & Education Campaign

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council Captain Crab Clean Beach Media & Education Campaign > Funding Sources

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: Valley Proud Environmental Council will educate residents of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and northern Mexico and visitors to the beaches of South Padre Island and Boca Chica that it is unhealthy and unlawful to litter on the beach.

Captain Crab Clean Beach Media and Education Campaign

Region/County: Cameron

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: Project to educate the public that it is unhealthy and unlawful to litter on Texas beaches.

Captain Crab Clean Beach Media and Education Campaign

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: The Captain Crab Clean Beach Media and Education Campaign was created to educate residents and visitors to South Padre Island and Boca Chica.

Captain Crab Clean Beach Media/Education Campaign and Puppet Show

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council Third Party Match

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: Valley Proud Environmental Council will continue to educate residents of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and northern Mexico and visitors to the beaches of South Padre Island and Boca Chica that it is unhealthy and unlawful to litter beaches.

Captain Crab Clean Beach Media/Education Campaign and Puppet Show

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Valley Proud Environmental Council

Recipient: Valley Proud Environmental Council

Summary: Valley Proud Environmental Council will continue to educate residents of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and northern Mexico and visitors to the beaches of South Padre Island and Boca Chica that it is unhealthy and unlawful to litter beaches.

Carancahua Bay Habitat Preservation and Enhancement - Phase 1

Region/County: Jefferson

Funding Source(s): Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)

Recipient: Texas General Land Office

Summary: This project will provide pre-construction data collection, wave and current analysis, biological assessment, engineering design, and environmental permitting to prepare for the future construction of approximately 2 miles of living shorelines along Salt Lake and Redfish Lake adjacent to Carancahua Bay and Matagorda Bay.

Cascade Park Coastal Wetlands Enhancement and Education

Region/County: Cameron

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Cameron County Drainage District #1

Recipient: Cameron County Drainage District #1

Summary: Provide adequate and quality drainage to southeastern Cameron County.

Cataloguing Texas Coastal Species Interactions: A Database for Coastal Managers, Scientists

Region/County: Coast Wide

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Recipient: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Summary: Cataloguing species trophic interaction data into an open access datatbase.

Causeway Rookery Island - Protection and Restoration

Region/County: Nueces

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program

Summary: The Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program (CBBEP) will address actions needed to protect important rookery island habitat from wind and wave erosion at Causeway Island in Nueces County.

Causeway Rookery Island Habitat Protection, Nueces Bay

Region/County: Nueces

Funding Source(s): Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Causeway Rookery Island Habitat Protection, Nueces Bay > Funding Sources

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program

Summary: The project includes engineering and design for a structure designed to protect the east side of Causeway Island

Causeway Rookery Island Shoreline Protection Phase II

Region/County: Nueces

Funding Source(s): Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Bends

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program

Summary: Construction of rock breakwaters around Causeway Rookery Island in Nueces Bay.

Cease the Grease Campaign

Region/County: Galveston

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation

Recipient: Galveston Bay Foundation

Summary: The Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) will coordinate and launch a regional Cease the Grease campaign (CtG) by: working in cooperation with a stakeholder workgroup; developing marketing and outreach materials; creating a distribution plan; and tracking campaign progress.

Cease the Grease Campaign: Enhancing Outreach and Launching Grease Recycling Pilot Program

Region/County: Galveston

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Galveston Bay Foundation

Recipient: Galveston Bay Foundation

Summary: The Galveston Bay Foundation will enhance the CtG campaign.

Cedar Bayou & Vinson Slough Marsh Restoration - Environmental Assessment

Region/County: Aransas

Funding Source(s): Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) Coastal Management Program (CMP)

Recipient: Save Cedar Bayou, Inc.

Summary: This project completed the second phase of an engineering study to evaluate the feasibility of reopening a natural tidal pass at Cedar Bayou/Vinson Slough and re-establishing the historic, hydraulic connection between inland wetlands and the Gulf. The U.S.

Cedar Bayou and Vinson Slough Hydraulic Restoration Non-construction Elements

Region/County: Aransas

Funding Source(s): Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA)

Recipient: Aransas County

Summary: The purpose of this project is to remove the anthropogenic barrier and restore the historical hydraulic connection between Cedar Bayou and Vinson Slough, and their connection to the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in substantial benefits to the coastal and estuarine ecosystem and marine fisheries habitat.

Cedar Lakes Oyster Water Use Assessment

Region/County: Brazoria

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP)

Recipient: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Summary: Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMUCC), in conjunction with the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), will collect current water quality data that provides adequate, up-to-date information to reassess the Cedar Lakes area for oyster use.

Cedar Lakes Oyster Water Use Assessment - Part B

Region/County: Galveston

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP)

Recipient: Department of State Health Services

Summary: TAMUCC will conduct bacteria source tracking for the Cedar Lakes area at four to six DSHS stations for two sampling events (one dry weather, one after rainfall), using antibiotic resistance analysis of E. coli isolates. TAMUCC will collect fecal samples from snow geese to generate approximately 100-150 E. coli isolates to supplement the existing bacteria source-tracking library for Copano Bay.

Celebrating Earth Day-Bay Day in the Coastal Bend, 2010

Region/County: Lower Coast

Funding Source(s): Coastal Management Program (CMP) Coastal Bend Bays Foundation Third Party

Recipient: Coastal Bend Bays Foundation

Summary: The Coastal Bend Bays Foundation’s (CBBF) annual Earth Day-Bay Day (EDBD) is geared to the general public to promote a general awareness of the Coastal Bend’s unique coastal natural resources. For the EDBD 2010, CBBF will include, for the first time, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Coastal Expo Program as part of EDBD. The event will be held in one of the city’s bayfront parks on Saturday, April 17, 2010.

CEPRA Cycle 13 Economic & Resource Benefit Study

Region/County: Coast Wide

Funding Source(s): Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA)

Recipient: General Land Office

Summary: The Texas Legislature requires the Texas General Land Office (GLO) to report the economic and natural resource benefits derived from Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) funding every biennium