Although the need for emergency dredging of the Brazos-Santiago jetty channel in April of 2014 by the Corps precluded a beneficial use event in FY2014, a “regular” maintenance dredging event is anticipated around October-November 2014, on which the GLO
The Town of South Padre Island will construct 1,538 linear feet of a new 6-foot-wide bayside nature trail boardwalk that will connect to an existing boardwalk that extends from the South Padre Island Visitors and Convention Center.
South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center installed twenty-three interpretive signs along the boardwalk that extends from the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center to the South Padre Island Convention and Tourism Center.
This is a two-phase demonstration project whose objective is to test an experimental methodology for the stabilization of the gulf facing shoreline adjacent to a one-mile portion of the pedestrian beach within the city limits of the City of South
In support of the South Padre Island CEMS Shoreline Stabilization Demonstration Project #1459, GLO is using an independent Professional Services Provider (PSP) to develop performance expectations and establish baseline criteria for general and site-spe
The City of South Padre Island will continue dune restoration projects along the entire length of City beach. The City experiences variable erosion rates, averaging 10 feet per year in some areas.
South Padre Island will stage and host volunteer planting events planting approximately 180,000 indigenous plants. Native plant species including panicum amarum and uniola paniculata will be planted and potentially, sea oats.
Cameron County and its coastal communities will work with the Texas General Land Office to develop a local Erosion Response Plan to be attached as an Amendment to the existing County Beach Access and Dune Protection Plan.
Three potential submerged sand resources were investigated to determine the volumes and quality of materials that can be used to nourish South Padre Island beaches. Geophysical and geotechnical investigations were conducted and a report prepared.
Lamar University will improve the Southeast Texas Flood Control District (SETxFCD) low-cost sensor network by replacing 34 systems with more reliable commercial units equipped with rain gauges.
This project addressed a highly utilized recreational beach within the City of South Padre Island that experiences erosion rates of up to 5.8 feet per year.
Seafood and Aquatic Life Group (SALG) will study contaminants of public health concern from the Galveston Bay complex by collecting additional fish and crab samples with emphasis on collecting the target species: spotted seatrout, red drum, black drum,
Three high-use public bayfront parks are targeted for Phase 1 of the project.
This project will be a joint project between the General Land Office (GLO) and the Bureau of Economic Geology and will use historical and recent aerial photographs supported by field surveys to determine spatial and temporal changes in salt-, brackish-
This project will determine the status and trends of wetlands on Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) along the southern Texas coast and the Chenier Plain along the upper Texas coast.
Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HARC) proposes to proceed with the fifth and final phase of a strategy to evaluate a myriad of issues related to assessing the vulnerability of coastal areas to natural hazards, including
The Status and Trends of Coastal Vulnerability to Natural Hazards project is a multi-phased project designed to undertake a status and trends study of coastal vulnerability to natural hazards of counties in the Texas Coastal Management Program (CMP) bo
Changing land use patterns, population growth, relative sea-level rise, limited regulation of construction practices, and reduced institutional history on storm response may be exponentially increasing the vulnerability of the Texas coast to natural ha
Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center will implement the second phase of a five phase strategy to evaluate a myriad of issues related to assessing the vulnerability of coastal areas to natural hazards, including: local, state,
Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HARC) will proceed with the third phase of a five phase strategy to evaluate numerous issues related to the vulnerability of coastal areas to natural hazards, including: local, state, and