Weeks Marine nabs South Padre Island contract May 5, 2021, by Eldin Ganic
The City of South Padre Island is working in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Texas General Land Office, and Cameron County to renourish the beaches on South Padre Island.
USACE has awarded a contract to Weeks Marine who will perform the regular maintenance dredging of the Brazos Santiago Pass Jetty and entrance channel.
The sediment to be dredged will be used beneficially, the City said in their official announcement.
It is estimated that 360,000 cubic yards will need to be dredged where seventy-five percent of the material (270,000 cubic yards) will be placed at the northern end of the City limits and twenty-five percent (90,000 cubic yards) of the material will be placed at Isla Blanca Park.
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Weather temporarily closes Cameron County beach areas
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Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. ordered the temporary closure of Boca Chica Beach and two beach access areas Saturday.
“These County beaches are temporarily closed until further notice to all incoming vehicular and pedestrian traffic to protect the safety and well-being of the general public in light of precautionary weather conditions and high tides,” Treviño, Jr. said in a news release.
The closures include:
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Born and bred in Texas for better and worse, Rob grew up around his father, a pioneering FBI Agent and Texas Ranger, who instilled in him the Texas ethos of doing what is right and standing up for what you believe. He spent every summer in a small trailer with his family on the beaches of Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. In 2005, his beloved park was threatened by development that would have destroyed the lifestyle that generations of South Texas Families had enjoyed in camping at the beach. He became an accidental Activist and became a founding member of the South Texas Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. Since that time, he has built the South Texas Chapter into a well respected Community and Environmental Organization utilizing the Surfrider Foundation Chapter Network. In any issue that he is involved in his only thought is, I want to look into my boys eyes when they get older and be able to say to them that I did everything in my power to protect and preserve our beaches