Bird Island Cove Habitat Restoration - Construction
Implementing Organization
State of Texas
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$5,000,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees (NRDA)
Funding Program
Natural Resource Damage Assessment NRDA
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Habitat Restoration and Enhancement
Targeted Resources
Wetlands/Marshes/Estuaries
Project Description
The project will construct approximately 8,820 linear-feet of breakwater to protect and enhance existing estuarine marsh habitats at the mouth of Ostermayer Bayou in West Galveston Bay, Galveston County, Texas. The breakwaters will protect up to 85 acres of estuarine marsh complex (i.e., intertidal emergent marsh interspersed with shallow open water seagrass beds and vegetated and non-vegetated sand flats) and create approximately 17,640 linear feet of three-dimensional hard-structure habitat for fisheries species. If flotation channels are needed to support site access during construction, then the dredged material will be beneficially used to create 12 acres of intertidal emergent marsh complex.
Contact
Rita Setser(512) 463-5029
rita.setser@glo.texas.gov
Project Website
None
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