I am glad to read this wonderful article.

Wow Matt that's really cool!

I see turtles cruising up and down the jetty in the summer at SS when the waves get flat. They like to eat algae off the rocks. I bet they would dig ship wreck reef algae too. Have you seen the picture of the ship that wrecked in the Florida Panhandle? Holy shit it looked fun!

Can we just say fuck it & sink a few ships? It would be a cheap & easy. Surfing next one was fun AF back in the day. Shit, even the turtles might show up. Don't they like artificial reefs? Asking for a friend.

Good on ya Matt!

Super cool and thanks

I see a lot a packery, Very few in SS

😂😂😂

We pulled 120 cold stunned turtles out of the jetty at Boca Chica last year. Junkman was there. I think I was meant to save critters that day. The surf never got that good.

that is a good idea...new the new billabong 3/2 taped and sealed quick release butt flap model...

Do new wetsuits have butt flaps? How are y'all taking a shit in the Gulf when you're wearing a wetsuit because the water is cold?

I have seen a few turtles on the beach and in the water by the SS jetties over the years-

i saw one this february in the bay when the water was really cold while i was SUPing flatwater in christmas bay i called the turtle hotline but it said dont leave a message if the turtle was healthy and not in distress

i saw a few at st joseph island a few years back as well

they are out there

I’ve seen a turtle in Galveston. Also Dingwall is talking about the turtle that peeks like a gopher in your wetsuit haha

@JCdingwall I've never seen turtles at SS, when do they usually come out? I've only seen them in Padre maybe once. That would be kinda cool...

sometimes there's a few turtle heads in the lineup make sure to wash that wetsuit out real good

Drop the rocks off at Meacs! I’d hate to see more sand washed out of Surfside.

That dissertation is exactly why we should keep government out of our lives as much as possible. I appreciate the response but the bureaucracy is disheartening. That said, I don't know if we want to further mess with Surfside's Mother (Nature).

never seen any at SS proper.....maybe further up Blue Water Hwy

Do turtles still nest at Surfside? Doesn’t seem like a prime spot with the minimal sand and car traffic on then beach.

end of turtle nesting season and it will start

Bring back Meacs! Never gonna happen. Pipe dreams!!!

#mssjga !!! Make SS Jetty great again!!!

Thanks for posting that Matt. Boy you have to be a special kind of person to think and write like that...and then pretty special to read it entirely and understand it!!! That is some serious government prose!!!

Grabber by the groins!

"my groins are the best, the best ever. they're huuuuuuge!" -the pot4us

Not with Trump Js, He'll get'errr done with his infrastructure plan. Things that used to take 10 years will be 10 months. Best, greateast groins ever built coming soon!

In other words,,,it might be a while

The GLO is really good about responding to inquiries if you email them. Here is the response I received 10/25/17.

Sorry Mike, I thought I had responded to your question, but I'm not sure I did. I remember corresponding with you some back in 2014 and again in 2016 about the Village of Surfside pedestrian beach erosion and maintenance renourishment. When I last wrote to you back in 2016 about the groin system and associated renourishment, a request for amendment to the Village of Surfside's existing US Army Corps of Engineers permit to cover construction of the two groins and associated expanded beach nourishment had been submitted to the Corps-Galveston District at the end of 2015. At that time, we anticipated that the permit amendment would have been issued earlier this year. The amendment request is going through a formal Section 7 consultation with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, which is a lengthy process.

As of mid-September, the engineer and biological permitting sub-consultant working under the GLO-issued work order for this permitting process had reported back to me that the USFWS had provided review comments back to the Galveston District concerning the Biological Assessment (BA) document, which is at the heart of the permit amendment process. The outcome of the formal Section 7 consultation process is that the USFWS and Galveston District will "settle" on special conditions, the BA will be finalized and submitted by the District back to the USFWS who will then issue a Biological Opinion, which in turn will be incorporated into the amended permit by the Galveston District. In terms of moving towards this objective, the Galveston District has asked the engineer to provide responses to the USFWS comments and also to address a question about erosion and longshore transport along Surfside shoreline, which will require a little more engineering modeling effort. As to how long this may take to get to where the Galveston District will issue the amendment, given the post-Harvey all hands on deck mode the District is now in, there is no firm estimate on how long this may take.

As you know, the last maintenance nourishment event was completed on March 13, 2015, along a roughly 2,000 linear-foot long segment of the beach from just west of Texas St. eastward to about half-way between Angel Wing and Crab St. The work was conducted in accordance with the GLO's Beach Monitoring and Maintenance Plan (BMMP) under the state-funded Coastal Erosion Planning and Response Act (CEPRA) program administered by the GLO. Future maintenance renourishment of the pedestrian beach will be driven in part by the recommendations coming out of the next round of BMMP monitoring surveys, which are presently being conducted in part to determine impacts from Hurricane Harvey, as well as available funding, both from the CEPRA program and at the local level. The may be a FEMA Public Assistance program-funded repair opportunity, but it is too early to tell.

Once the permit amendment is issued, work to finalize the design for the groins and associated nourishment and the construction itself would take place under a future state funding biennium, with the assumption that adequate funding for the project is identified, both at the state and local level.

Thomas Durnin

Project Manager/Coastal Planner

Coastal Resources Program

Coastal Protection Division

Texas General Land Office

(512) 463-1192

Given that it's about to be turtle nesting season I don't see them starting until late summer / fall

Bars are working pretty nice between the houses and A-Frames, guess we’ll see how a jetty thrown in the mix works out

Yeah similar size. Down by A frames

Where are they gonna be like short groins along beach like galvo or what

Ellis picket would be the man with that info