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
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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
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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

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• 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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