March update - Sargent Beach Jetty and Restoration
So the Matagorda County Commissioners voted to approve the final engineering design and survey for the Sargent Historic Beach Nourishment Project - as you recall from a previous Sargent Beach Post - this will be the following stretch of beach that will be renourished. The goal is to put this in place after the jetty and breakwaters are in place As for the main project - it is now time to go to the Request For Proposal (RFP) phase - there have been many, including myself, that felt this would take a few months and be done. But this is a major project and because it is over $5 million, it has to go to the Texas Comptroller. So the way it looks now - all the documentation will go to GLO, they will create the final RFP - the timeline for all this to happen is 6 months - adding the 30 days from the comptroller, I think we we are looking at September for the RFP process to be complete and then construction to begin some time in October. The actual project, according to Atkins Global,