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Home My WebLink About(S1) CCT menu of servicesPut Clean Coast Texas to Work For Your Community! Clean Coast Texas provides coastal communities with technical assistance to integrate sustainable practices that: • Restore and protect coastal natural resources • Address water quality and flood management for new and exisiting development • Mitigate coastal erosion • Enhance tourism, recreation, and economic vitality cleancoast.texas.gov Services We work with coastal communities to facilitate non-regulatory, incentive-based programs and projects to protect and restore water quality, habitat, and shorelines. We support your efforts to educate residents, assist in community planning, pursue and implement grants, develop drainage/ water quality criteria, and build projects that reduce pollution in the Texas Coastal Zone. Clean Coast Texas, an initiative of the Texas Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution Program, is guided by the Texas General Land Office (GLO) Coastal Management Program in partnership with numerous stakeholders, including state and local agencies. See back for details! Who is Eligible For Funding and Technical Assistance? Communities and programs operating within the Texas Coastal Zone Boundary, which includes all or part of 18 counties along the Gulf of Mexico (view map). Technical assistance can be provided to state departments, municipalities, counties, non-governmental organizations, councils of government, river authorities, bay and estuary programs, developers, and engineers. Menu of Services Stormwater Retrofit Design & Construction Managing stormwater from urbanized areas • Water quality and stormwater management for new and existing development • Conceptual designs • Construction plans, cost estimates, and permitting • Maintenance guidance Water Quality Analysis & Citizen Science • Texas Stream Team citizen science trainings • Water quality management and evaluation • Review and comment on engineering and drainage studies • Policy evaluation and development Ordinance & Stormwater Criteria • Prepare stormwater management criteria • Support ordinance adoption • Floodplain management Community Planning • Community Master Planning • Stormwater Master Planning Grant Funding Assistance • Grant writing support • Find and interpret grant opportunities • Identify grant matching resources Partnership Development • Identify connections and opportunities • Coordination with local governments, nonprofit organizations, regional councils of governments, and program managers of watershed protection plans • Inter-local agreements to define roles and responsibilities Education & Community Events • Workshops • School and adult programs • Interpretive signage • Trash cleanup events cleancoast.texas.gov