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, will only take a few months to complete.  And then the beach nourishment would happen after that. 

So - our optimistic view that we would have a great beach this summer is being overcome by the standard bureaucracy - and looks more like a late fall early winter.  But still in 2022 - so let's hope for the best. 


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