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Reduce Flooding: What Some Utilities Don’t Understand about Northpark Expansion Project

Foot dragging by utilities has set the Northpark expansion project back years. What none seems to understand is that this isn’t just a normal road expansion project. It’s about creating a reliable, all-weather evacuation route for 78,000 people. The utilities see the project as a headache. Traumatized residents see it as a lifeline. And that’s […]

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Reduce Flooding: GLO Announces Bolivar Beach Restoration Project to Protect Highway

On 12/13/23, Texas General Land Office (GLO) Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. announced the approval of Coastal Erosion Planning & Response Act (CEPRA) funding for a Bolivar Peninsula Beach and Dune Restoration project. The beach-restoration project seeks to: According to the GLO, the CEPRA funds – initially aimed at an engineering study – will provide both economic and coastal resilience […]

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