Implementation of a Project Delivery Team and Life-Cycle Benefits

1. Implementation of a Project Delivery Team and Life-Cycle Benefits Galveston District’s RSM Program and Project Delivery Team

2. Galveston District’s RSM Program • Fostering Communication Project Delivery Team Stakeholder Workshops • Leveraging Funds Regional Sediment Budget Conceptual Sediment Budget for Entire State Beneficial Use Projects and RSM • Life-Cycle Benefits Mouth of the Colorado River

3. Planning & Environmental Jeff Waters – PL Rob Hauck - EL Navigation Operations Ronnie Barchak - PM Galveston District RSM PDT Real Estate An Gordon Engineering & Construction Lynn Robinson – H&H Tim Few – Geotech Luis Saenz – AO Rob Thomas – H&H Regulatory Denise Sloan State of Texas Ray Newby – Tx General Land Office

4. Stakeholder Workshops • Galveston (June 22) & Corpus Christi (June 24) • Sponsored by USACE-SWG and Texas General Land Office • Attended by Federal and State Resource Agencies, NGO’s, Ports, Local Governments, Consultants & Academics • Interactive Workshops facilitated by Group Solutions, Inc.

5. Stakeholder Workshops • Introduction • Constraints to RSM Partnering • Data Availability and Data Sharing • Data and Resource Gaps • Funding Issues • Governance for Future Partnering

6. Lack of Public Support for Coastal Issues Translates into Lack of Political Support and Lack of Funding • All Texas residents must be made aware of the benefits associated with a healthy coastal system. • Form a lobby group that will get support for the entire region, not just a single town. • Position environmental restoration and enhancements in terms of economic benefits to the general public. These are what decisions are based on.

7. Lack of Systems Planning • Adopt learnings from other RSM entities that have been successful in mobilizing efforts. • Start with a basic mission statement and formulate a plan to achieve objectives to meet the mission. • Be proactive developing regional plans and utilize opportunities to monitor implemented projects in an adaptive management approach. • Bring as much of the needed science to bear as possible but don’t let the lack of information be an impediment to project implementation. • Seek innovative ways to monitor and learn as we go.

8. Existing DMMPs • Ensure DMMPs consider regional sediment budget through coordination workgroups or use of regional sediment plan consistency • Incorporate existing DMMPs into regional plan even if they don’t exactly fit at this point in time. Then in the future, DMMPs can be modified as necessary to fit the regional plan. • Use DMMPs for their intended purpose – MANAGING SEDIMENT – not just a another check-off item.

9. Regional Sediment Budget – Sabine Pass to San Luis Pass

10. Beach Profiles – Bolivar Peninsula Shoreline Change Analysis

11. Dredge Statistics from Federal Navigation Projects

12. Regional Sediment Budget

13. Houston-Galveston Ship Channel

14. Texas United States Brazos River North Section Sabine River Sabine Lake Colorado River Trinity Bay Map Area Houston Port Arthur Galveston Bay Gulf of Mexico Sabine Pass -F Rollover Pass -A Mexico San Bernard River Houston-Galveston Ship Channel -F West Bay Galveston Island Freeport San Luis Pass E. Matagorda Bay Central Section Brazos River Diversion Channel -A Caney Creek Victoria Freeport Ship Channel -F (Chapiot’s Cut -A) (SW Cut -P) (Parker’s Cut -A) Matagorda Bay (McCabe’s Cut -A) Mitchell’s Cut -A Lavaca Bay (Brown Cedar Cut) Colorado River Navigation Channel -F Espiritu Santo Bay (Green’s Bayou) Matagorda Ship Channel -F San Antonio Bay Pass Cavallo Matagorda Island Copano Bay Cedar Bayou South Section Aransas Bay St. Joseph Island Corpus Christi Aransas Pass -F Mustang Island Legend Corpus Christi Bay (Fish Pass -A) (Corpus Christi Pass) -F Federal -A Artificial -P Proposed (Closed Pass) Open Pass (Newport Pass) (Packery Channel -P) Baffin Bay (Yarborough Pass -A) Gulf of Mexico Land Cut Padre Island National Seashore Big Shell Beach Lower Laguna Madre Port Mansfield Channel -F Arroyo Colorado South Padre Island Scale Brownsville Brazos Santiago Pass -F (Boca Chica Pass) 0 20 20 40 Mouth of Rio Grande Kilometers Mexico Conceptual Sediment Budget – State of Texas

15. Data Assembly and Analysis • Dredging data – compiled using Galveston District’s Dredging Histories Database • Sediment data - compiled using Galveston District’s Dredging Histories Database • Shoreline data – adopted Morton (1977) data set • Beach fill dredged material placement data - compiled using Galveston District’s Dredging Histories Database and several reports

16. Regional Littoral Transport Patterns

18. Existing Beneficial Use Projects at SWG • Identified over 50 existing and planned Beneficial Use projects that can be characterized as consistent with goals of RSM • Assembled Fact Sheets for each project. • Projects include: beach placement, nearshore berm placement, creation of bird islands, marsh creation and restoration, etc. • Entered into GIS.

19. A GIS for RSM in SWG When complete, a single GIS will allow quick access to projects and data affecting our regional sediment budget.

20. To find a project, just zoom in on the region you are interested in. If you know the name of the project you are interested in but not its location, query the project location table.

21. As you zoom in more details are displayed. Zoom variable details can include actual plans, pipeline locations, future projects, or any other data. Clicking on lightning bolt shaped icons links to a project master document which contains a project overview and links to more data and pictures.

22. Clicking on the lightning bolt for the Redfish Island project links to this document. The project master document is kept up to date and acts as an easy point of reference for finding project related data.

23. Clicking on the first picture link in the Redfish Island master document leads to this picture.

24. Lack of Funding (Stakeholder Workshops) • Use Coastal Texas 2020 as a vehicle to address increased funding with the state legislature. • Encourage the creation of more coastal task forces in Texas. • Perform peer reviewed regional economic studies that demonstrate the benefits of RSM. • Demonstrate the potential return on investment to justify and prioritize funding. • Prove to the public haw a dollar can be stretched through cooperation of local coastal task forces, state, Federal, River Authorities, etc.

25. N E. Matagorda Bay Ebb W. Matagorda Bay W Spit Mouth of Colorado River Erosion Matagorda Ship Channel County Park E Spit W Beach E Beach Gulf of Mexico Predom. transport Flood Channel Weir Basin Transport reversal

26. Entrance Dredging History • 1941-1953 for Flood Control Purposes • 1973 900,000 for Flood Control • 1990 New Work 1,094,967 • 1991 New Work 62,077 • 1993 702,179 • 1994 809,240 • 1995 266,208 • 1996 372,585 • 1997 473,197 • 1998 863,451 • 2000 701,957 • 2001 773,446 • 2002 *184,968 • 2003 ~*500,000

28. N Ebb W Spit Erosion County Park E Spit W Beach E Beach Predom. transport Flood Channel Weir Basin Transport reversal

31. Maintenance Dredging $260,000 Sediment Training Structure E&D cost $150,000 Construction $840,000 “OLD WAY” $2.1 M annually (dredge full project, every year) First Year Savings nearly $1M and counting….

32. Implementation of RSM Project Delivery Team at Galveston District • Fosters better communication across functional elements. • Identified fund leveraging opportunities to promote regional data assessment. • Working to document economic benefits associated with RSM. • Serves as a “champion” for RSM at the District and in the state of Texas.