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SWG-2023-00171 - City of Palacios - Tres Palacios Bay - Matagorda County, Texas

USACE Galveston District
Published May 25, 2023
Expiration date: 6/26/2023

Public Notice          Project Plans

The applicant proposes to install approximately 6,620 linear feet of 20-foot-wide breakwaters into open waters of Tres Palacios Bay for shoreline protection.  The applicant proposes to discharge approximately 13,515 cubic yards of clean rock fill to a height of 3 feet above the mean high water line (MHWL) into approximately 1.68 acres of unvegetated open water for the northern breakwater which would be comprised of five individual segments.

The southern breakwater would require the discharge of approximately 8,850 cubic yards of clean rock fill to a height of 3 feet above the MHWL into approximately 1.34 acres of unvegetated open water which would be comprised of three individual segments.  The dimensions of each segment are located within the plans.