Happy Two-for-Tuesday!
Did anyone read from The Houston
Chronicle on MSN from June 26, 2023, their article titled, “Gulf Coast storm
protections including ‘Ike Dike’ to get $550 million in new state
appropriations”? In the article it
speaks about Gov. Greg Abbott last Sunday, signing off on appropriations worth $550
million out of the legislative budget bill.
These funds will go towards two projects for the upper Gulf Coast and
their agency called Gulf Coast Protection District. The two projects are ‘Ike Dike’ (cost $34 billion)
and Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay (cost $4 billion), and they will help protect
the upper Texas coast, upper Texas ports, and the Houston Ship Channel from dangerous
storms like Hurricane Ike and hurricane’s storm surges. This is only part of the money needed to
complete the ‘Ike Dike’ project which Texas’ part is about $13 billion and the
U.S. government’s part is about $21.4 billion.
In December 2022, President Joe Biden authorized constructions for ‘Ike
Dike’ as part of the federal defense act, at this time the Army Corps of
Engineers is still awaiting funding for the estimated twenty-year project. The Army Corps has started and finished the
first mile of the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay project in July 2022 by
improving the earthen levee system by raising it in West Port Artur this project
and all its phases expected to be completed by 2026. This is good news for those living on the
upper Texas coast. If you would like to
read more of the article from The Houston Chronicle for free on MSN, please
click the link: Gulf Coast storm protections including 'Ike Dike' to get $550 million in new stateappropriations (msn.com).
If you would like to read about
the completion of Phase 1 of the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay, please click the
link: USACE News Release: Army Corps, partners complete first mile of Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay surge risk reduction mega-project / Gulf Coast Protection District (gcpdtexas.com).
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We hope you have a great and
productive rest week! Keep cool in this
heat wave!
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