Region/County:
Cameron
Recipient:
City of South Padre Island
Summary:
This project will build six new lifeguard observation towers to replace the existing towers on beaches managed by the City of South Padre Island,
Region/County:
Chambers
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The Gordy Marsh shoreline is eroding at a rapid rate.
Region/County:
Calhoun
Recipient:
Texas Department of Transportation
Summary:
Engineering design, permitting and construction of a project to stabilize approximately 3,700 feet of highly-eroding Matagorda Bay shoreline.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
City of Galveston Park Board of Trustees
Summary:
The Galveston Park Board of Trustees and The Texas General Land Office CEPRA program are conducting a beach nourishment project with beneficial use of dredged material (BUDM) at Babe’s Beach.
Region/County:
Calhoun
Recipient:
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Summary:
Phase I of a multi-phase project, will conduct pre-construction activities.
Region/County:
Upper Coast, Brazoria, Harris, Jefferson, Orange
Recipient:
General Land Office
Summary:
The goal of this study is to conduct offshore surveys of the Sabine and Heald banks.
Region/County:
Jefferson
Recipient:
Ducks Unlimited
Summary:
Construction of 3.5 miles of living shoreline rock breakwater along the northern and southern shorelines of the GIWW.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
City of Jamaica Beach
Summary:
This project is a regulatory USACE permitting project intended to restore and update a Section 10/404 permit for the City of Jamaica Beach allowing for future beach nourishment projects.
Region/County:
Matagorda
Recipient:
Matagorda Bay Foundation
Summary:
Development of a restoration plan for Oliver Point Habitat Complex.
Region/County:
Calhoun
Recipient:
Calhoun County
Summary:
To address protection of 2,500 linear feet of eroding shoreline in Boggy Nature Park, Port O’ Connor, Matagorda Bay.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
The project is intended to reduce wave energies affecting the shoreline between Oyster Lake and West Baynd restore fringing marsh habitat along the shoreline.
Region/County:
Galveston
Recipient:
Galveston Park Board
Summary:
The Historic Seawall Hurricane Harvey FEMA Repair project (Project) consists of mitigating damage from Hurricane Harvey to the gulf facing beach shoreline known as Historic Seawall located within the City of Galveston.
Region/County:
Jefferson
Recipient:
USFWS Texas Point Refuge
Summary:
The project proposes to seek out a sand source utilizing alternatives analysis to research procurement methods including BUDM, local DMPAs, and known resources in federal waters (Sabine and Heald Banks through cooperative agreement with BOEM).
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:
Galveston
Recipient:
Galveston Bay Foundation
Summary:
To counteract the decline of oyster habitats in Jones Bay, the Galveston Bay Foundation (GBF) will restore up to 4 oyster habitat sites.
Region/County:
Cameron
Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
The desired outcome of this project is to conduct engineering services for a future construction project to stabilize the Children's Beach shoreline.
Region/County:
Cameron
Recipient:
Cameron County
Summary:
This project will conduct beach nourishment activities within a 600-foot construction width along 12-miles of shoreline.
Region/County:
Nueces
Recipient:
Nature of Conservancy of Texas
Summary:
The previously designed feeder berm was damaged during Hurricane Harvey, the feeder berm will be emplaced and potentially redesigned for the north breach.
Region/County:
Coast Wide
Recipient:
Texas State University
Summary:
Texas General Land Office's Living Shorelines Program supports ecologically and economically sound coastal management practices by promoting the use of living shorelines as an alternative to traditional shoreline stabilization techniques for landowners and citizens as well as contractors and local officials who live and work along the Texas Coast
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.