Sunday, March 26, 2023

The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport, Bolivar, Texas

The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport, Bolivar, Texas

Massive beach resort and private airport coming to Texas coast near Houston

The development also includes The Zoo Bar & Grill, a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks. Massive beach resort and private airport coming to Texas coast near Houston

Author: Jaime E. Galvan

Published: 10:48 AM CDT March 22, 2023

Updated: 12:43 PM CDT March 25, 2023

BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas — An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport.

The Bolivar Investment Group has unveiled a multiphase plan for a beachfront development in Crystal Beach coming in the summer of 2024.

According to developers, The Peninsula Beach Club and Resort are described as the “crown jewels” of the plan. They feature a private guest clubhouse with twin Olympic pools and cabanas, a bar & grill, and a large event floor with wrap-around shade porches. There will also be a spa and restaurant.

Their plan also includes a private FAA-approved full-service airport just minutes away from the resort itself.

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport. This September will mark 15 years since Hurricane Ike leveled Bolivar Peninsula and efforts to rebuild the coastline are still underway.

"New homes, most of the homes are worth a lot more than they used to be, some of the homes are worth $1 to 2 million," said Bolivar Investment Group Head of Marketing Mike Wiglesworth. Now Wiglesworth and his group are set to build a unique resort to serve daily, weekly, and long-term rentals.

"We think it will be very successful," Wiglesworth said. 

Here is a breakdown of the other aspects of the development: The Zoo Beachbar & Grill

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Zoo is a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks.

The Zoo is a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks.

Developers said The Zoo will feature multitudes of big-screen TVs and views overlooking championship beach volleyball and pickleball courts along with other recreational sports.

The Peninsula Resort Cottages

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula Resort Cottages is a private beach resort comprised of one-, two- and four-bedroom studio cottages on the water with access to the guest clubhouse, Veranda Bar & Grill and swim club, pickle ball courts, recreational lake, beach cart trails and more.

The Peninsula Resort Cottages is a private beach resort comprised of one-, two- and four-bedroom studio cottages on the water with access to the guest clubhouse, Veranda Bar & Grill and swim club, pickle ball courts, recreational lake, beach cart trails and more.

These units can accommodate from two to 24 overnight guests. They are available for daily or weekly rental with housekeeping services.

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

According to developers, The Peninsula Beach Club and Resort are described as the “crown jewels” of the plan. They feature a private guest clubhouse with twin Olympic pools and cabanas, a bar & grill, and a large event floor with wrap-around shade porches. There will also be a spa and restaurant.

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort features 50 RV sites with overhead cabins including a kitchen, bathroom, fireplace, and inside/outside entertainment areas with spacious roadways for easy in/out access.

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort features 50 RV sites with overhead cabins including a kitchen, bathroom, fireplace, and inside/outside entertainment areas with spacious roadways for easy in/out access.

Developers said the park will cater primarily to adults. Also, there will be a dog park, washer/dryer stations, convenience store, golf cart rentals, nature trails, picnic pavilions, and barbecue pits. The Peninsula Resort Villas

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula Resort Villas are 90 two- and four-bedroom beach houses up for sale. Developers said the villas feature large entertainment decks, spacious open-truss living areas, hardwood wide plank floors, large open living/dining areas, an entertainment kitchen island with sink, and under-counter wine storage.

The Peninsula Resort Villas are 90 two- and four-bedroom beach houses up for sale. Developers said the villas feature large entertainment decks, spacious open-truss living areas, hardwood wide plank floors, large open living/dining areas, an entertainment kitchen island with sink, and under-counter wine storage. 

They added that the homes are elevated and engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds.

The Peninsula Resort Condo Towers

The Peninsula Resort Condo Towers is an exclusive, seaside community that will consist of 160 units of one-, two- and three-bedroom beachfront condominiums located in five towers.

Developers said they will feature large extended beachfront decks elevated for ocean views. The condos will have elevators, guest parking, and storage on private access driveways.

These units will be placed into a centralized reservation system managed by the developers for the owners to opt-in for leasing.

Merchants' Row

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

Merchants' Row is a group of storefronts and retail spaces along Highway 87 fast food/ takeout, beach clothing, specialty, and convenience stores.

Merchants' Row is a group of storefronts and retail spaces along Highway 87 fast food/ takeout, beach clothing, specialty, and convenience stores.

Slideshow: Beach resort, private airport planned for Bolivar Peninsula, Texas

David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport. 


Bolivar The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport

https://bolivarinvestmentgroup.com/about-us

Bolivar Beach Peninsula Resort

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The Peninsula Beach Resort - The Peninsula Resort Condo Towers
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Bolivar The Zoo Beachfront Bar Grill

Bolivar Beach Club and Resort

Bolivar Peninsula Resort Cottages

Bolivar Peninsula Resort RV Park

Bolivar Peninsula Resort Villas

Bolivar Merchants Row


The Bolivar Peninsula Resorts Dog Park

PHASE 2 Bolivar Beachside RV Resort – Bolivar’s newest and most exclusive, 5 Star-Rated, 200 unit luxury RV Resort Park that will cater to adults and families.   It will accommodate RV’s with extra-large EZ drive-thru parking pads, surrounded by water features and ponds for kayaking and fishing, as well as a dog park, washer/dryer stations, C-store, Golf Cart rentals, nature trails, BBQ pits, and much more!


The Bolivar Peninsula Fly-In and Resort Airport


Wow, massive! 

the crowds? 

private airport, planes flying in and out, noise, who gets to use the airport? 

the State will not be able to buy enough Ferry's to get the people over to Bolivar.

Screw the environmental/birding/fishing grounds I suppose, birding habitats, fishing grounds, much less the people that have called it home all their lives. wonder what the environmental impact from all this will be?

Port Bolivar, Crystal Beach, surrounding areas will never be the same imo, they just thought Hurricane Ike was bad. 

Trying to fish East Bay after this will be a nightmare, from all the added pressure.

I can see it now, Hanna's and Deep Reefs, Siever's cut/flats, Goat Island, Pepper Pt., Fat Rat Pass, Long Pt., Marsh Pt., Mussel Pt., Frozen Pt., all the way to the shores of far East Bay, back around and up through Windmills, Moody's Reef, Whitehead Reef, all the back up to Smith Point on the other side, will be nothing but boats and recreation, with the closer of Rollover Pass, this big sprawling playland for the rich, now you can kiss all that good-by, as we knew it, imo. with that much boat/fishing pressure and the recreation from all of the above, added to East Bay, that fishing resort will quickly go downhill, imo.

WTF were they thinking (Commissioners)$, sure was not the folks that had been living their all of their lives.

They call it progress. 

what's happening to _our_ beaches anyway?

Mayes Middleton SB 434


In Texas, public access to Gulf Coast beaches is not just the law, it is a constitutional right.

Walking along the beach in Texas has been a privilege since Texas was a Republic, and the Texas Land Commissioner protects this public right for all Texans by enforcing the Texas Open Beaches Act.

Under the Texas Open Beaches Act the public has the free and unrestricted right to access Texas beaches, which are located on what is commonly referred to as the "wet beach," from the water to the line of mean high tide. The dry sandy area that extends from the "wet beach” to the natural line of vegetation is usually privately owned but may be subject to the public beach easement. The line of vegetation may shift due to wind, and wave and tidal actions caused by storms and hurricanes.


“If SB 434 passes, don’t be surprised if you show up at your favorite beach spot and you’re confronted with a fenced-off beach or ‘no trespassing’ signs,” former state land commissioners David Dewhurst, Garry Mauro and Jerry Patterson wrote in an op-ed. “The only remedy available to you then would be a suit against the adjacent upland landowner. But who wants to bring their lawyer on a trip to the beach?”


State Sen. Mayes Middleton once again has altered a beach bill opponents worried would erode rights afforded by the Open Beaches Act, this time removing language that had inspired intense objection.

Middleton called The Daily News on Wednesday to answer questions about the third presentation of what originally was Senate Bill 434. That bill worried beach advocates and motivated three former Texas Land Office commissioners to pen an opinion piece opposing it, leading Middleton to withdraw SB-434 and go back to the drawing board.

He filed SB-2550 March 10, inspiring more objection, although directed mostly at a single paragraph Middleton now has removed.


Mayes Middleton SB 2550



it's really sad what they have done, and are doing to our beach's, pay per view, and we can't even go to Murdoch's anymore, without opening up an account with the city to pay for parking, can't just put a dollar or two in the meter anymore. very sad. we just don't go anymore, not even to the Strand, and we use to love to go down there and shop and visit. not anymore. but that's just us. i have heard that the West end of Galveston, down by the Pass, it's bad there too, and getting worse. we still have our memories though, they have not started charging us for that...yet.

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District Hosts Public Information Session on October 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., Harris County Commissioners Court

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Re: Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District Hosts Public Information Session on October 9, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., Harris County Commissioners Court

 

CONTACT: Robert Eckels President, Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District, Inc. Email: Info@gccprd.com

 

HOUSTON (October 10, 2014) – The Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District (GCCPRD) held a public information session on Thursday, October 9, 2014 hosted by Harris County Judge Ed Emmett and GCCPRD President Robert Eckels. The session provided details about the GCCPRD Storm Surge Suppression Study.

 

Following three major hurricanes, the last of which (Hurricane Ike) was the most expensive in Texas’ history, Governor Perry issued an Executive Order creating the Governor’s Commission for Disaster Recovery and Renewal. One of the Commission’s recommendations was to conduct a study to determine how coastal communities can reduce the damage of future storms. In conjunction with that recommendation, Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Jefferson, and Orange Counties formed the GCCPRD as a local government corporation. The GCCPRD is leading the Storm Surge Suppression Study, a technical, scientific-based study funded to investigate opportunities to alleviate the vulnerability of the upper Texas coast to storm surge and flooding from events like Hurricane Ike. The study is funded by the Texas General Land Office through a $3.9 million federal Housing and Urban Development, Community Development Block Grant that was awarded in September 2013. Since then, the GCCPRD has been collecting data as well as analyzing existing studies and reports. This study is an opportunity for the GCCPRD to assume a leadership role and work collaboratively with federal, state, local, and public and private institutions to develop a comprehensive coastal protection plan that meets the needs of the region and the nation.

 

The Storm Surge Suppression Study will yield a variety of storm surge suppression alternatives that may consist of natural, structural, and nonstructural methods. Using these findings, the GCCPRD will recommend a cost-effective and efficient system of flood damage reduction and storm surge suppression measures to help protect the six-county region. It is anticipated that this study will conclude in fall 2016. Public feedback and participation is encouraged throughout the life of the study. Public scoping meetings will be held in winter 2014 and at key milestones in the study. Future large-scale public scoping meetings will be noticed in advance in local newspapers. For more information or to join the mailing list visit: http://www.gccprd.com/

 

About the Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District (GCCPRD): The GCCPRD is a local government corporation governed by a Board of Directors comprised of the County Judge of each participating county and three additional appointed members serving three-year terms. Former Harris County Judge Robert Eckels was appointed by the Board to serve as President of the District. # # #

 

CONTACT:

 

Robert Eckels

President, Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District, Inc.


 


 

IKE DIKE VS RICE DIKE INPUT SOUGHT FROM PUBLIC

 

Gulf Coast residents asked for ideas on surge suppression

 

December 3, 2014 chron.com

 

By Robert Stanton

 

The Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District will host a series of public meetings in December to gain public feedback on protection from hurricanes as part of the state's Storm Surge Suppression Study, created by Gov. Rick Perry.

 

The first public meeting will take place from 6-8 p.m, Dec. 4 at League City Civic Center, 400 W. Walker St. in League City.

 

Others meetings will take place from 6-8 p.m. on Dec. 9 at J.D. Walker Community Center,

 

7613 Wade Road in Baytown;

 

and from 6-8 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1001 Pearl St. in Beaumont.

 

Comments will be accepted at the public meetings and throughout the duration of the study.

 

Written comments may be mailed to the Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District in care of Col. Christopher Salles at 3100 West Alabama St., Houston, Texas 77098 or emailed to info@gccprd.com.

 

"There are a number of different studies that are under way or in progress, and, they all offer part of the solution, but the efforts have not been coordinated and there are still gaps between the Work of the various studies," said district president Robert Eckels.

 

Two major ideas have emerged to prepare and protect the Houston-Galveston region from severe storms and hurricanes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008.

 

No funding has been secured as of yet

 

Storms from page 1

 

Rice University's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center has proposed a Centennial Gate to provide storm-surge protection to the Houston Ship Channel.

 

The Centennial Gate near the Fred Hartman Bridge would protect industries along the Houston Ship Channel.

 

The Ike Dike proposed by Texas A&M University involves a coastal spine concept that would combine barriers and gates to keep storm surge out of internal waters.

 

Seabrook Mayor Glenn Royal said he supports the coastal storm surge suppression system plan, also known as the coastal spine - a 15- to 17- foot barrier that would stretch from High Island on Bolivar Peninsula to the San Luis Pass on Galveston's West End.

 

"We have to be ready and have a plan in place when we go ask for funding, which is estimated to be about $6 billion," Royal said. "We have to show that we're together, in unison, and have public buy-in." To date, no funding for post-Ike hurricane protection plans has been secured, which is why the upcoming public meetings are so important, Eckels said. Questions: 713-868-1043

 

chron.com

 


 

 

Greetings Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District in care of Col. Christopher Salles, the Honorable Col. Salles Sir, Honorable GCCPRD President Judge Robert Eckels, Family, Friends, and Neighbors of the surrounding Galveston Bay complex.

 

>>> Two major ideas have emerged to prepare and protect the Houston-Galveston region from severe storms and hurricanes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008. <<<

 

THE BIG DIFFERENCE between the two proposals, the RICE SPPEED dike will NOT protect a great portion of Galveston County, and by the RICE SPPEED dike proposal own words ;

 

“Furthermore, this proposal leaves waterfront properties and communities east of SH- 146 vulnerable; however, it maintains the possibility of waterfront recreation and other environmental and natural coastal features.”

 

ALL the Rice SPPEED dike will do, is protect Houston and the Houston Ship channel and all it’s petro-chemical complex, by damming up the North end of Galveston bay and adding a 25 foot seawall down the west side of SH 146 from Baytown to Texas City, making a wasteland and next a recreational park for the rich to come play in, at the expense to tax payers. my biggest concern is the petro-chemical giants getting their way, with the rice SSPEED dike, at the tax payers expense, and that will be signing a death sentence for all of us when the next big one comes up the ship channel. you can’t dam us out, east of SH 146, and just draw a pretty picture replacing us, as the rice dike proposes, and what we all know would happen if you dam up the North end of Galveston bay, and building a 25 feet wall west of SH 146 on the old train tracks. it will be doom for La Porte, Seabrook, Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, San Leon, up to Texas City, Texas. the Rice Dike is absolutely the wrong way to go. Vote for the Ike Dike T.A.M.U. ! if the petro chemical giants want a wall only to protect them, let them build it by themselves, not on the tax payers backs, and again, at the same time knowing what your signing is your own death certificate. you may as well write your Social Security number on your arms now if the Rice SSPEED Dike goes through. it could be grounds for litigations in courts for decades to come, deliberate loss of property and life, with intent. they knew would it would do from day one, because they drew a damn map drawing all of us out, and replacing us with ‘’waterfront recreation and other environmental and natural coastal features’’.

 

I am asking for the people of the surrounding Galveston Bay areas to please support the TAMU IKE DIKE, so we can all be protected, not just Houston, and the petro-chemical complex up the Houston Ship Channel.

 

please see my reference materials and evidence against the Rice SPPEED dike proposal as reference materials below...

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

 

RICE SPPEED DIKE ALREADY HAS BIG PLANS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTY EAST OF SH 146 FROM BAYTOWN TO TEXAS CITY, TEXAS.

 

vote for the IKE dike, if we even will get a vote, and make sure to make the petro-chemical companies pay for their fair share of the protection from the _Ike_ dike proposal by TAMU.

 

if the Rice SSPEED dike is approved, the federal government should be forced to buy us all out, at top dollar. ...

 

see 25 foot damn along SH 146 ;

 

 
 
see how high the tide still was, two days after IKE, looking right into our garage and garage apartment, look how high the tide still is, WITHOUT THE RICE SPPEED DAM...dike.
 
 
can you imagine what that would look like with the north end of galveston bay dammed up, and a 25 ft. damn from La Porte to Texas City Texas ?
 
here was the tide the day before Ike from our pier, and please notice what the water level was then, compared to 2 days after Ike. (takes a minute to load, and 28 seconds into video, see water level)
 
 
 
see officials from surrounding Galveston Bayshore communities I have spoken with, and how they feel about the Rice SSPEED dike, VS the IKE dike by TAMU ;
 
 
Kemah Mayor

 

From: Bob Cummins Sent:

 

Monday, November 18, 2013 1:51 PM

 

To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Cc: Rick Beverlin

 

Subject: RE: Is your community just collateral damage? RICE DIKE VS IKE DIKE

 

Mr. Singeltary, The City has Dr. Merrill speak on several occasions to help educate our citizens. We have sent letters to the state and federal bodies to show our support for the much needed Ike Dike. Dr. Merrell has spoken to every group in the Bay area and has done a great job to help all of us. If you know of anyway we can be of greater support of this cause please let me know. Respectfully, Mayor Bob Cummins City of Kemah

 

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Seabrook Mayor

 

From: Glenn Royal

 

Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 4:56 PM

 

To: 'Terry S. Singeltary Sr.'

 

Subject: RE: Is your community just collateral damage? RICE DIKE VS IKE DIKE

 

Dear Terry,

 

Rice University has not bothered to ask the opinion of Seabrook about the Centennial Gate. Had they asked, our reaction is similar to LaPorte. Prior to receiving your email, council has discussed our own resolution in opposition to this plan.

 

Recent discussions that I have had with area groups about the Centennial Gate give me hope that it is not going to be implemented given its relative cost versus storm surge protection. The Ike Dike gives us the greatest cost/benefit value.

 

Thank you for reaching out and sharing these articles with me. Please continue you to do so.

 

Best regards,

 

Glenn Royal

 

Mayor

 

City of Seabrook

 

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La Porte City Council At Large “A” councilman

 

From: John Zemanek

 

Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:58 PM

 

To: 'Terry S. Singeltary Sr.'

 

Subject: RE: Is your community just collateral damage? RICE DIKE VS IKE DIKE

 

Terry,

 

City passed resolution opposing the Rice Dike. If you hear anything down the road, please let us know. We are keeping our eyes & ears open as well. FYI, I am the At Large “A” councilman.

 

Regards,

 

John Zemanek

 

Zemanek Marine Services, Inc.

 

From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9@verizon.net]

 

Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:28 PM

 


 

Cc: atlargea@laportetx.gov; atlargeb@laportetx.gov; district1@laportetx.gov; cengelken@att.net; district3@laportetx.gov; district4@laportetx.gov; district5@laportetx.gov; district6@laportetx.gov

 

Subject: Is your community just collateral damage? RICE DIKE VS IKE DIKE

 

Say there Honorable Mayor Louis Rigby, and Council Members et al in the great city of LaPorte, Texas.

 

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RICE UNIVERSITY IKE DIKE hwy-146-levee proposal, THAT WOULD WASH AWAY SEABROOK, KEMAH, BAYVIEW, BACLIFF, AND SAN LEON

 

NOVEMBER 2011

 

Preliminary research results indicate that the most feasible structure will be a levee along SH-146 accompanied by pocket levees, built by private landowners. The levee would connect natural 25 foot elevations near the Houston Ship Channel and the Texas City Dike effectively protecting the properties and critical facilities and infrastructure west of SH-146. However, moveable barriers would need to be placed at Clear Lake and highway underpasses.

 

*** Furthermore, this proposal leaves waterfront properties and communities east of SH- 146 vulnerable; however, it maintains the possibility of waterfront recreation and other environmental and natural coastal features.

 


 

HERE is a IKE DIKE proposal that would help SAVE AND PROTECT SHOREACRES, SEABROOK, KEMAH, BAYVIEW, BACLIFF, AND SAN LEON.

 

THIS Ike Dike proposal by TAMU does NOT abandon all of us that have lived here all our lives, and this proposal does not sell out to developers ;

 


 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:30 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: Re: Ike Dike question ? fantastic! thank you for your kind reply Sir, and explanation for the layperson such as me. many thanks, I like your proposal much, much, better Sir, considering my backyard is Galveston Bay here in Bacliff, 77518 shoreline. with that rice university plan, the shorelines from Kemah to San Leon and property values there from would tank and the next big one, we would all be marsh land. course, it would not matter much anyway, because that big toxic dredge island I have to look at everyday now, you know the one they propose to double in size now, well all that would be in our houses. ...what were they thinking. ...thanks again. with kindest regards, terry

 

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From: William Merrell

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:08 PM

 

To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: RE: Ike Dike question ?

 

Again - the Dike you describe is proposed by Rice University. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Ike Dike. The Ike Dike protects everyone in the Bay because it is along the coast. You can verify this and learn the details of the Ike Dike by going to our website

 


 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9@verizon.net]

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 5:00 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: Re: Ike Dike question ?

 

Greetings again Dr. Merrell,

 

Sir, I had a question.

 

I did not have any ideas, other than the fact, I am concerned and confused on one of rumored proposals of Ike Dike, and we wanted to know the truth, and I was told, you were the person to go to, and my question was as follows ;

 

i heard that one of the potential designs for the ike dike, would have everyone living south of the Kemah bridge on hwy 146, and everyone east of hwy 146 there from, i.e. Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon, all these fishing communities would be EAST OF SAID IKE DIKE, as the said IKE DIKE would be built west of hwy 146, thus leaving everyone east of 146 to be left for marsh land, as any hurricane after said IKE DIKE built would leave these fishing communities as marsh lands due to any IKE DIKE built west of hwy 146, is any of this true?

 

is there any proposal on the table to eliminate the Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon shore lines from the Ike Dike?

 

is the scenario of said rumor, I proposed above, is this one of the proposals?

 

as home owners, property owners, and business owners, we are concerned, and we have a right to know if this is a proposal or not?

 

a simple yes or no answer will do. ...

 

thank you,

 

kind regards,

 

terry

 

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From: William Merrell

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:38 PM To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

 

Cc: Cherie Coffman

 

Subject: RE: Ike Dike question ?

 

The 146 dike is proposed by the SSPEED Center at Rice. I agree with your ideas on it. The Ike Dike is a coastal spine which would protect everyone. Details on website http://www.tamug.edu/ikedike/

 

Best regards, Bill

 

William Merrell George P Mitchell Chair Texas A&M University at Galveston Po Box 1675 Galveston, Texas 77553-1675 409-740-4732 work 409-740-4787 fax 409-771-2225 cell

 

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From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9@verizon.net]

 

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:50 PM

 

To: William Merrell

 

Subject: Ike Dike question ?

 

Greetings Dr. Merrell,

 

I am a bit concerned and confused, and hoping you might be able to help straighten out any confusion on the IKE DIKE.

 

i heard that one of the potential designs for the ike dike, would have everyone living south of the Kemah bridge on hwy 146, and everyone east of hwy 146 there from, i.e. Kemah, Bayview, Bacliff, and San Leon, all these fishing communities would be EAST OF SAID IKE DIKE, as the said IKE DIKE would be built west of hwy 146, thus leaving everyone east of 146 to be left for marsh land, as any hurricane after said IKE DIKE built would leave these fishing communities as marsh lands due to any IKE DIKE built west of hwy 146.

 

is any of this true ?

 

can you please show me where all the said potential designs and drawings might be for the public to view on any said IKE DIKE ?

 

thank you,

 

kindest regards, terry

 

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END...TSS

 

Dr. Merrell, a marine scientist from Texas A&M, will be talking about his proposal December 11, 2012 at 7 P.M. to explain his proposal, at a Town Hall Meeting in San Leon, Texas, at the San Leon Fire Station. ...

 

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
 
Ike Dike Scientist Professor William Merrell sees NO chance of compromise !
 
BRAVO!!! Legislators want quick action on Ike Dike
 
 
 
Friday, December 6, 2013
 
IKE DIKE TAMU VS Rice SSPEED Dike Centennial gate from Hell
 
 
 
Sunday, December 9, 2012
 
 
*** RICE DIKE PROPOSAL COULD DESTROY GALVESTON BAY BAYSHORE COMMUNITIES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Thank You...

 

Respectfully,

 

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

P.O. Box 42

Bacliff, Texas USA 77518

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Thursday, February 9, 2023

Oil’s Unchecked Outfalls Water Pollution from Oil Refineries and EPA’s Failure to Enforce the Clean Water Act

EIP Environmental Integrity Project January 26, 2023

Oil’s Unchecked Outfalls 
Water Pollution from Oil Refineries and EPA’s Failure to Enforce the Clean Water Act

Executive Summary

Although petroleum refineries are well known as major sources of air pollution, they also discharge nearly half a billion gallons of wastewater every day into rivers, streams, and estuaries. That’s enough to fill 712 Olympic swimming pools every 24 hours with wastewater loaded with toxic metals, ammonia and other forms of nitrogen, oil and grease, industrial salts and other dissolved solids. These pollutants can be dangerous to fish, aquatic life, and human health. Pollution from refineries clogs public waterways with algae, corrodes drinking water intakes with industrial salts and, in the case of toxic metals like chromium or selenium, lurks at the bottom of rivers, lakes, and estuaries for hundreds of years.

The Clean Water Act requires EPA to limit the discharges of harmful refinery pollutants based on the best available wastewater treatment methods, and to tighten those limits at least once every five years where data show treatment technologies have improved.
 But the standards for refineries have not been revised in nearly four decades, since 1985, and apply to only a small handful of pollutants. These weak and outdated standards do not reflect advances in treatment methods or the expansion and modification of refinery operations over the last four decades. While a few state agencies have included several additional discharge limits in refinery wastewater permits, EPA and state environmental agencies rarely enforce them or penalize violations.

EPA’s failure to act has exposed public waterways to a witches’ brew of refinery contaminants. Based upon an Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) analysis of the industry’s own monitoring data, permit applications, and toxic release reports, 81 refineries in the U.S. discharged an estimated 60,000 pounds of selenium into waterways in 2021, along with 10,000 pounds of nickel, 15.7 million pounds of nitrogen, and 1.6 billion pounds of chlorides, sulfates, and other dissolved solids.

Selenium and nickel are toxic to fish and other aquatic life. Selenium can cause reproductive harm in animals and bioaccumulates and biomagnifies through the food chain, threatening birds and other creatures. At high levels chloride can also kill fish and destroy plants that are critical to the ecosystem. Excess nitrogen can fill waterways with algae, making rivers and streams unsuitable for swimming or fishing, while also robbing fish and shellfish of the oxygen they need to survive. Water overloaded with chloride, sulfates, or other dissolved solids is corrosive and foul-smelling and must be decontaminated (at public expense) before it is fit to drink.

In addition to these pollutants, according to an EPA report, oil refineries in 2017 discharged 14,200 pounds of cyanide into U.S. waterways, along with 2.5 million pounds of oil and grease, and 128,000 pounds of heavy metals including arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc (as well as nickel and selenium).1 Both the Environmental Integrity Project’s 2021 calculations, and EPA’s earlier 2017 estimates are likely to be low as they focus on wastewater discharged from refinery processes and generally exclude contaminants that are released during spills or stormwater runoff, or which are contained in wastewater sent offsite to public wastewater treatment plants that are usually not designed to remove heavy metal compounds and other refinery pollutants.

U.S. refineries discharged about 60,000 pounds of selenium into waterways in 2021. Selenium can be toxic to fish and is likely the cause of the spinal deformity occurring in the pictured Sacramento Splittail.

Snip…see full report;

https://environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Oils-Unchecked-Outfalls-FINAL2-01.26.23.pdf


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