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SWG-2024-00232 – Tradewinds Mitigation Bank – Port Bay – San Patricio County, Texas

USACE Galveston District
Published Oct. 16, 2025
Expiration date: 11/14/2025
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Public Notice          Project Plans

Establishment, Operation and Management:  The key focus of this mitigation bank is to restore hydrologic connectivity between Port Bay and Spears Lake, an artificially managed and anthropogenically modified reservoir, through the re-establishment of historic intertidal channels. This connectivity would be restored by creating strategically placed breaches in constructed spillways to allow the exchange of tidal and freshwater flows between Spears Lake and Port Bay.

Additional historic connections to currently isolated wetlands within the project area may be restored by reconfiguring existing excavated ditches, borrow areas, and earthen berms located within and adjacent to Spears Lake. These actions would support the restoration of tidally influenced wetlands across a range of salinities—fresh, brackish, and saline—and help reintroduce historic freshwater inflows into Port Bay.

Where appropriate and practicable, the project may also incorporate coastal upland buffer communities. This would increase habitat variability across the site, supporting a wider array of microhabitats and accommodating various species with specific spatial or proximity requirements related to wetlands and aquatic features.