Texas, Corps Outline $31B Plan to Protect State’s Coast (Source: ENR)
Author: By Louise Poirier
A long-awaited draft feasibility study released by the Texas General Land Office and the Army Corps of Engineers pegs the cost of constructing a series of resiliency projects along the Texas coastline at between $23 and $31 billion.
The largest project in the study is a storm surge barrier between Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island, known as the “Ike dike” or the “coastal spine.”
