More Spacious Beaches Created Along Seawall Galveston Capital Tourism and Marketing Texas
GALVESTON – Beachgoers arriving at the Galveston seawall this weekend will find a far more spacious beach to relax on following the pumping of more than 1 million cubic yards of sand along 3.5 miles of badly eroded beach. The $19.5 million effort to pump sand taken from a sand bar in the Houston Ship Channel ended March 27 as the last batch of sand slurry plopped onto the new beach near 61st Street, said Reuben Trevino, operations manager for the Galveston Park Board. " Come on down and enjoy the beach ," said Kelly de Schaun, executive director of the park board. Beachgoers will see the formerly narrow strip of beach extended to about 300 feet from the seawall. The beach is designed to gradually erode and form a slope until it stabilizes at about 150 feet, Trevino said. He said the process should take about two weeks. The project got underway more than two months ago after numerous delays but was completed well ahead of the May 13 deadline set by th