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Seawall Channel Bridge
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Tx DOT announces $13 million appropriated to replace two aging bridges on Highway 361 between Aransas Pass and Port Aransas.
Tx DOT is quick to point out replacing the two bridges is not related to last year's bridge collapse in Minnesota. In fact, this project has been in the works for some time.
The plan to replace the bridge, known as the Seawall Channel Bridge began several years ago. This part of Highway 361 is structurally strong, but Tx DOT will spend about $3.5 million to upgrade the bridge. "We are going to rebuild that bridge, making it a five lane bridge with sidewalks," said Cliff Bost, who is the public information officer for Tx Dot in the Corpus Christi area.
The bridge doubles as a storm surge protector for Aransas Pass during a hurricane, hoisted into position by a crane, but there are plans to upgrade that too.
"It's newer technology, stronger but lighter," Bost said. "Easier for our people to handle and still provide the necessary protection, but it has to be widened because we are going to widen the road there." |
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The new construction will triple the size of the highway. They also plan to put a turn lane in, so motorists can turn into the subdivision nearest the bridge." Tx DOT said construction will also begin on replacing the Red Fish Bay Bridge a few miles away on Highway 361. That's a 10 million dollar project. Tx DOT estimates it will take about two years to complete the two projects.
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| ***** OFFICIAL NOTICE ***** |
*** STATE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT *** |
| COUNTY: NUECES, ETC HIGHWAY: SH 361 LENGTH: 0.262 MI |
CONTROL NUMBER: 2263-02-082, ETC DBE GOAL: 4.0 % |
| PROJECT NUMBER: BR 2007(015), ETC |
TYPE: REPLACE BRIDGE AND APPROACHES |
| TIME FOR COMPLETION: 368 WORKING DAYS |
EST.COST: 3,426,471.60 |
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mikead @
Monday, March 03, 2008 1:23 PM |
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, in cooperation with the City of Port Aransas and other partners, will receive more than $366,000 and match that amount with more than $200,000 to construct 16 slips for visiting boaters in the Port Aransas Municipal Harbor.
The proposed visiting facilities are part of a larger marina renovation project that also includes providing dockside utilities, sewage pumpout facilities and other improvements. |
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SHANNON TOMPKINS - Houston Chronicle @
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:51 PM |
A new boat ramp constructed on the Freeport Ship Channel and very popular with coastal anglers will see improvement in amenities thanks to a grant from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved a staff recommendation to pass along $125,174 to the Village of Surfside Beach as a grant to fund improvements in the newly constructed ramp.
The money represents 75 percent of the cost of constructing a new restroom, fish-cleaning station, security lighting and expanding the parking area at the new ramp.
The Village of Surfside Beach will provide the other 25 percent of funding for the project.
The $125,000 grant was part of a package of more than $1.1 million in grant money TPWD issued for projects which improve boating access across the state.
Funds for the grant program are generated through the federal Sport Fish Restoration Act, more commonly called the Wallop-Breaux Act after its Congressional sponsors.
The Wallop-Breaux Act collects federal excise taxes on boats, motors, fishing tackle and other fishing/boating-related equipment, then distributes those funds to the states through a formula based on fishing license sales.
Federal law mandates those funds be spent only on fisheries-related programs, and apportions 15 percent of each state's Wallop-Breaux funding for projects improving boating access.
TPWD administers the program, which provides as much as 75 percent of a boat ramp project's funding. Local government entities — cities, counties, water districts, etc. — apply for the grants and are required to provide at least 25 percent of a project's costs.
Operation and maintenance of boat ramps constructed through TPWD's boating access grant program are the responsibility of the government entity sponsoring the project.
Local governments apply to TPWD for boating access funding, and the agency ranks the applications according to a standardized process.
In this latest round of boat ramp funding grant dispersals, TPWD received six applications and had funding for four.
In addition to the Surfside ramp expansion, TPWD approved a half-million-dollar grant for a replacement and expansion of a ramp and parking area on at the confluence of the Bosque and Brazos river in Waco, a $403,000 grant for rehabilitation of a large boat ramp on Lake Buchanan and a $112,000 grant to renovation of the Municipal Harbor Ramp in Port Aransas. |
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