The fast loading Spiralveyors were installed at Jacintoport making it the first facility of its kind in the country.
Also in 1990, the Beneficial Uses Group (BUG) was formed to develop environmentally innovative and beneficial ways to use dredge material from the Houston Ship Channel. A 250 acre demonstration marsh was built, which surpassed anything ever attepted in marsh restoration. Over the 50 year life of the eppening and widening project, an unprecedented 4.250 acres of marsh, a six-acre bird island, the 3,000 foot long Goat Island and Redfish Island will be built.
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