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The Sifting Sands of the Texas Coast
Posted on Mar 29th, 2016
The Sifting Sands of the Texas Coast
One line in the description of the “Mouth of the San Bernard River Restoration Project” for RESTORE Act funds says, “…The San Bernard Wildlife Refuge has agreed to take all of the dredge material generated from this project to be used beneficially for marsh creation and restoration of critical Piping Plover habitat along the refuge’s beach.”
In the description of the “Port Freeport Sediment Management-Habitat Restoration Initiative” for RESTORE Act funds, it says, “…PF (Port Freeport) will generate at least 5,000,000 cy of DM (dredge material) in the next expansion phase, which will be lost to the GOM (Gulf of Mexico) if no action is taken to use the sediments as RI’s (Restoration Initiative) for local marshes, dunes, beaches, wetlands, storm protection levees and other natural areas…PF has a commitment dedicating the entire DM from its expansion exclusively to restoration…"
Some of that restoration will take place on Wolf Island, according to a recent newspaper article. The San Bernard River borders Wolf Island on the west. Wolf Island has a designated spoil area that has been in place and used since 1940.
Looking like a bowl of spagetti, the most important current on Earth is the Gulf Stream.
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In summary, the Port Freeport DM will move next to the San Bernard. The San Bernard DM will move to the San Bernard Wildlife Refuge beach. There the DM would flow down the Texas coast where it will meet up with the northerly flowing Gulf Stream, turn around and flow past its original home and on its way to the British Isles.
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