Support breakwater restoration protecting Mustang Island coastline
The Nature Conservancy/Mustang Island/SP/Cohn Preserve/Nueces County
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers· Mustang Island State Park area, Nueces County, Texas, Cohn PreserveArmy Corps public notice ↗
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The groups on this fight
4 groups work Texas
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Big Bend Conservancy
Works Texas: they work only in Texas.
- Friends of Balcones Canyonlands NWR
Works Texas: they work only in Texas.
- National Parks Conservation Association
Works Texas: plaintiff in the challenge to the blanket Gulf oil and gas endangered species exemption, naming Padre Island among the threatened parks.
- National Wildlife Federation
Works Texas: co-plaintiff in the God Squad suit over Gulf drilling impacts on Kemp's ridley sea turtles.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Six offshore breakwaters would shield a fragile Gulf Coast estuary from wave damage and restore critical coastal habitat.
What’s at risk
The Cohn Preserve and estuarine habitat near Mustang Island State Park face ongoing shoreline erosion and wave damage. Without this project, this sensitive Gulf Coast ecosystem continues to degrade with no structural protection in place.
If we stay silent
The Army Corps permit would allow The Nature Conservancy to install permanent riprap breakwaters that reduce wave energy and support long-term habitat restoration along this Texas Gulf Coast estuary.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
4 holes in the agency’s own analysis
What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I support this action and urge the agency to advance it.
- I support granting The Nature Conservancy a federal permit to install six offshore riprap breakwaters covering 2.31 acres of estuarine open water near Mustang Island State Park in Nueces County, Texas.
- These breakwaters will be placed within the negative 3 to negative 5 foot depth contours, with 50 to 100 foot gaps to allow wave energy transmission, showing a carefully engineered approach to shoreline protection at the Cohn Preserve.
- This conservation project uses approximately 12,900 cubic yards of graded riprap to reduce wave energy and support coastal habitat restoration in a sensitive Gulf Coast estuary, not for damaging development.
- Approve this Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District permit so The Nature Conservancy can advance coastal restoration along the Gulf Coast Texas estuarine open water adjacent to Mustang Island State Park.
Show all 6 points from the document
- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
The applicant proposes to construct six offshore breakwaters by placing approximately 12,900 cubic yards of graded riprap over 2.31 acres; of estuarine open water by shallow water draft barges. The breakwaters will be placed within the -3 feet to -5 feet contours with 50-foot to 100-foot gaps allowing transmitted wave energy into the breach area. This notice has been published by the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers This notice has been published by the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on our website at https://www.swg.usace.army.mil/Media/Public-Notices. Comments are d…
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