Happy Monday! Welcome back to another week of ESC News Blog. We hope you have been enjoying the end of Summer.
Well, we like to keep up with the
happenings on the Gulf Coast, and we especially pay attention to the Coastal Texas
Project (CTX) and its “Ike Dike” and other storm mitigation projects along the
Texas coastline. The Gulf Coast Protection
District and their partners chose 2 engineering firms back in December 2025, to
start design on the protection for Galveston Bay and Boliver Peninsula regions;
see our Blog back in mid-December 2025.
Well, two of the partners have come to agreement for another area of the
Texas Coastal Project; let’s get into the details.
Did anyone happen to read Chron’s
First Draft Newsletter on August 24, 2026, their article titled, “State, feds
take big step toward massive Coastal Texas Project”? The
article, it goes on to speak on how the Texas General
Land Office (GLO) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) have signed
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement to work together on one of the
smaller projects of the Coastal Texas Project for South Padre Island. The South Padre Island project will be restoring
and fortifying the ecosystem which includes dunes, beaches, and other habitat
on this important barrier island which will help mitigate storm damage, and it
is part of the Coastal Storm Risk Management section of the CTX project. Now with the MOU in place the partners may
move for working together to get construction moving on this barrier island
project. The GLO has already vowed $50
million to CTX project. We wish the GLO and USACE luck getting the CTX: South Padre Island project designed and completed. If you would like to read more of Chron’s
article, please click the link: Texas flood control project inches one step closer to reality.
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We hope you have a wonderful evening! Keep cool!
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