Galveston Park Board Back-passing Nourishment Practices Study

Summary

The Sediment Bedload Collector Project is intended to analyze the efficacy of a sand bypassing/backpassing technology to relocate sediment from accreting areas to those adjacent areas experiencing a sediment deficit. The project will deploy a innovative structure to passively collect material in a nearshore environment and will identify potential deployment configurations, calculate potential production rates of bypassing/backpassing technologies, and optimize subsequent site selection(s) for a larger-scale implementation of the project. Project data collected would also quantify bed load transport sufficiently for optimization of bypassing/backpassing technologies.  The project builds upon previous smaller-scale efforts of the USACE and provides a quantifiable pilot-scale analysis. The project looks to extrpolate the potential for the development of this technology on a larger-scale and coast-wide.