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Consultants report encouraging early findings for Causeway Marine Park; permitting expected to take 18–24 months
Summary
Consultants told the South Padre Island EDC on Sept. 16 that initial surveys and modeling for the Causeway Marine Park show encouraging conditions for a marina and habitat-island mitigation strategy, but regulators’ permitting could take 18–24 months.
Consultants for the proposed South Padre Island Causeway Marine Park told the Economic Development Corporation on Sept. 16 that initial field surveys and numerical modeling have produced encouraging results but that permitting will be a long, technical process.
Edgewater Resources co-founder Greg Weicamp and environmental lead Phil (surname not stated) presented six weeks of preliminary engineering, drone and ground surveys, seagrass and oyster mapping, and hydrodynamic modeling. "It's about really solving access to the water for everybody," Weicamp said, describing the project's public-access goals as well as marina functions.
Key early findings and technical points: - Seagrass and oysters: the team ran transect surveys and mapped about 30 acres of seagrass meadows in the study area. Surveyors found the existing channel clear of seagrass and oysters; as Phil reported, "I…
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