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Title: Beach Renourishment of Surfside, TX.


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Beach Renourishmentof Surfside, TX.
JT Stewart 12/2/04
What is renourishment?
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Where is Surfside?
45 mins down the coast from Galveston.
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  • Surfside background
  • Erosion is at 8 feet/year
  • 12 Houses lost
  • Claudette hit in 2003
  • Received 2.8 million (FEMA CEPRA)
  • Geo-tube shoreline protection beach
    renourishment proposal

Texas General Land Office
Geo tube
4
CEPRA background
  • Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (2000)
  • Beach renourishment
  • Texas GLO Hired UT
  • Thesis cost benefit analysis
  • Data
  • Survey of beach users
  • Aerial photographs

Cheap sand
5
Survey of beach users (Memorial Day)
  • Peak day use questions
  • Where you from?
  • How much you spending?
  • How long is your stay?

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Aerial Photography
To compliment our beach survey, and beach count,
we requested aerial photographs (July 4th) be
taken.
TNRIS DOQ combined with July 4th
Geo-referenced aerial photographs
Surfside, TX.
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  • Aerial Photographs
  • Beach characteristics
  • Beach densities
  • .5 mile affected economy

8
  • Hints for geo referencing to get ride of white
    box (Maidment style)
  • Right click on image in layer list
  • Properties
  • Symbology
  • Check display background value
  • Set RGB to 255 (white)

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In closing, beach renourishment is..
  • Fight for , very political.
  • Who is getting the benefits of renourishment
    (state, local, federal, rich guy)?
  • Should it even be done?
  • How do you measure all the benefits?
  • environment, infrastructure, economy, quality of
    life, recreation, fishing, surfing
  • This is Planningwelcome to the chaos.

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