After years of being locked in a standstill, planners of the Coastal Texas Project announced the approval of two engineering design contracts that will allow the project to move forward once again.
The details
The Gulf Coast Protection District announced Dec. 2 that it had approved two contracts with global engineering firms Jacobs and HDR to design the gates, beaches and dunes portions of the initially authorized $34 billion project, respectively.
Per the agreement, no dollar amount has been awarded for the total design project. Rather, each portion of the project, or “tasks,” will have a specific dollar amount to be agreed upon in the future, GCPD Communications Director Heather Betancourth said.
