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Item Containment Assessment of Maintenance Dredged Material from the Houston Ship Channel Galveston Bay, Texas(United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 1989-03) Cain, Brian W.Maintenance dredging of coastal waterways is a continuing process regulated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In Texas the Galveston District is responsible for issuing permits to dredge after they have been reviewed by several state and federal agencies. The potential to alter coastal estuaries and a concern over environmental contaminants impacting the biota are two issues associated with maintenance dredging that evoke public response. This study was designed to determine if maintenance material in the Houston Ship Channel is contaminated, and if the sediment bound contaminants have a pathway to the Galveston Bay biota. The study idea was generated jointly by the Galveston District of the Corps of Engineers and the Clear Lake Ecological Services Field Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Questions raised during review of our environmental impact assessment associated with a proposal to widen and deepen the Houston Ship Channel prompted the study. Funding was provided by the Construction-Operations Division of the Corps of Engineers, and the field work was provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Chemical analyses during the study were provided by contract laboratories to the Corps of Engineers, that were quality control tested by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before the contracts were awarded.Item Contaminant assessment of the upper Texas coast(Galveston Bay National Estuary Program, 1993) Cain, Brian W.; Jensen, Richard W. Russell W. Kiesling, and Frank S. Shipley; Proceedings: The Second State of the Bay Symposium. February 4 - 6, 1993The Upper Texas Coast is defined in this report as the coastal bays, estuaries, and their tidally influenced tributaries from Freeport in Brazoria County northeastward to Port Arthur in Jefferson County. This section of the Texas coast has four major centers for petroleum and petrochemical manufacturing: Freeport, Texas City, Houston Ship Channel, and Port Arthur. Adjacent to these industrial areas are large municipal areas that house more than three million people. These urban areas contribute municipal waste (Gloyna and Molina, 1964), pesticides (Dick, 1982), and contaminated urban runoff (Newell et al., 1991) to the creeks, bayous, and rivers that drain into these coastal waters.Item The first 60 acres: A NRDA restoration project(Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, 1999) Cain, Brian W.; Proceedings: The State of the Bay Symposium IV. January 28-29, 1999A negotiated settlement for possible injury to natural resources from the French Limited Superfund Site along US 90 near Crosby, Texas provided this opportunity to restore or enhance natural habitats in the Galveston Bay system. This project will produce the natural resources that may have been injured by the release of hazardous materials from this site into the San Jacinto River. A series of slides will show the transformation from a deteriorated urban setting to a coastal wetlands with intertidal meanders through Spartina, upland vegetation on islands, and explain the process that allowed this unique project.