The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District staff partnered with the Texas General Land Office (GLO) and scientists at Texas research universities to populate a centralized repository of information along the Texas coast called the Texas Coastal Sediment Geodatabase (TxSed).
In 2009, the GLO obtained a federal Coastal Impact Assistance Program grant for a project entitled Sediment Resources Investigations Along the Texas Coast to begin development of TxSed.
Since then, GLO has led the efforts against coastal erosion along the Texas coast, partnering with the USACE Galveston District, federal, state and local resources and other coastal stakeholders to fight erosion where it makes economic sense to do so.
Once completed, the database will contain all of the available sediment data ever taken off the Texas coast into one database to help build a complete map of the Texas coast and allow coastal planners to work smarter in protecting and rebuilding the Texas coast with less public money.
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Press Release, August 22, 2013