Mad Island Marsh Preserve Shoreline Protection and Coastal Ecosystem Restoratio. Phase I
Implementing Organization
The Nature Conservancy
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$104,261
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Funding Program
NFWF Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund GEBF
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Planning
Targeted Resources
Wetlands/Marshes/Estuaries
Project Description
Planning and engineering project is the first phase of an effort to protect over 6,000 acres of critically important coastal prairie and marsh ecosystem. The ultimate goal of the project is to install a 2.3 mile nearshore breakwater to stem the persistent erosion and habitat loss at the Nature Conservancy's Mad Island Marsh Preserve along the mid coast of Texas in Matagorda Bay. Slowing the shoreline loss at the mouth of the Mad Island Lake Bayou is critical to maintaining the salinity gradient of this estuarine system.
Contact
Julie Sullivan361-882-3584
Julie_Sullivan@tnc.org
Project Website
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Texas Sea Grant
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