The Texas General Land office (GLO) established guidelines for the development of local Erosion Response Plans (ERPs) that incorporate a building set-back line. The guidelines for ERPs included provisions for prohibition of building habitable str
The project will produce three finalized engineering plans for public beach access improvements.
This project, conducted in conjunction with Project #1453 under a cooperative agreement with the U.S.
The improvements at Aquarius Circle include 13 parking spaces with one ADA accessible spot; sidewalk and lighting; irrigation and landscaping; rinse station with foot showers and drinking water; ADA dune walkover; and public access signage designating
The Marine Advisory Service of Sea Grant is continuing to work with the marina industry.
The City of League City will add two new kayak launch sites to the paddle trail system; one at Kansas Avenue in the City and another at the Highway 270 boat ramp in Dr. Ned and Fay Dudney Clear Creek Nature Center.
Bayou Preservation Association (BPA) will complete the final phase of the Clear Creek Riparian Restoration project at Challenger Seven Memorial Park, which includes 15-20 acres of invasive plant removal adjacent to previous removal work.
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) will extend their shell recycling program, where shucked oyster shell is reclaimed from various seafood industry partners, to include reef restoration.
This project has assisted the GLO in identifying critical erosion areas while recognizing socio- and environmental economic issues and was utilized by the GLO to revise rules as necessitated by the passage of HB 2073 and HB 2074 by the 81st Texas Legis
Project to perform well plugging activities to eliminate the threat of abandoned, unplugged and improperly plugged wells from polluting surface and subsurface waters.
Purpose of this project was to obtain up-to-date coastal management data. The GLO contracted with vendors to obtain aerial photography of the Texas coastal shoreline to monitor CEPRA project performance, delineate impacts from hurricanes and trop
This project pools the resources of the state's academic and research institutions to more fully understand the parameters of the CMP, to consider the most pressing issues of coastal managers, and to develop a strategic plan for fostering sound researc
The Nueces River Authority will acquire approximately 185 acres of sensitive land adjacent to Oso Creek in Nueces County and within a coastal natural resource area.
The Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science (CBI), at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, will install oceanographic instrumentation to document near shore currents and the distribution of wave height, period, and direction averaged over a period
Data collection and mapping will be used to update the Resource Management Codes and provide data for coastal resource management planning.
Texas A&M University at Galveston will continue the functioning, growth and expansion of the Texas Coastal Erosion Data Network and the Texas Oyster Reef Resource Network.
The CEPRA statute requires the Land Commissioner to evaluate the natural resource and economic benefits of CEPRA projects and report these measured benefits to the Texas Legislature for each biennium that the Legislature provides CEPRA funding.
Coastal Expos are outreach events creating awareness and understanding of the functions and values of coastal ecosystems. Coastal Expos help Texans learn how they can protect coastal ecosystems through water conservation, recycling and use of nat
The Texas Water Development Board is to provide a web-accessible tool that allows users to easily identify and access data for the Texas coast.
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) will examine coastal datasets and, based on priority level and ease of import, will incorporate additional datasets into the Coastal Geodatabase infrastructure.