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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 Sullivan
361-882-3584
Julie_Sullivan@tnc.org
Project Website
Project Partners

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Texas Sea Grant

Affiliated Institutions

None

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