Lavaca Bay Restoration, Point Comfort, Calhoun County

This project aimed to restore the Lavaca Bay from being contaminated by discharged mercury from a chlorine-alkali processing unit at its Point Comfort. A staged approach to restoration was adopted with the first stage focused on recreational fishing service losses. The second stage focused on natural resource injuries and service losses of an ecological nature. To restore these losses, 729 acres of land were purchased for transfer to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for preservation as part of the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, 70 acres of inter-tidal salt marsh were created within the refuge and 11 acres of new oyster reef habitat were created in Lavaca Bay.