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REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM <br /> Appropriation <br />Agenda Date Requested: December 9, 2013 <br />______N/A___________ <br />Source of Funds: <br />Tim Tietjens <br />Requested By: <br />Account Number:______N/A__________ <br />Department: Planning <br />Amount Budgeted: _____N/A___________ <br />Report: ___Resolution: _X_Ordinance: ___ <br />Amount Requested: ____N/A__________ <br />Budgeted Item: YES NO <br />Exhibits:Resolution <br />Exhibits: Presentation <br />SUMMARY& RECOMMENDATION <br />After Hurricane Ike, Texas A & M Galveston Professor Dr. Bill Merrell, studied and proposed a <br />structural protection system, known as “Ike Dike”to protect the Houston Galveston region from <br />storm surgeof a major hurricane. Located along the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of Galveston <br />Bay, it would include a combination of movable gate systems and revetment levees covered with <br />natural materials on Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula,which would protect the entire <br />Galveston Bay area. It would not only protect the Houston Ship Channel industries from <br />environmental catastrophe, but also the Bayport, Texas City and Galveston Industrial areas as <br />well as every community fronting Galveston Bay, including La Porte. <br />Such a system along the Gulf of Mexico and the mouth of Galveston Bay would also mitigate <br />the rising surge that tends to increase in height as it moves further up into a bay system like <br />Galveston Bay. <br />While the project is unfunded at this time, the proposed Resolution in favor of the Ike Dike, <br />would also be presented to the six-county public corporation known as the Gulf Coast <br />Community Protection and Recovery District, created after Hurricane Ike to investigate possible <br />funding sources. <br />Dr. Merrell is scheduled to present the concept in detail tonight. <br />Action Required by Council: <br />Consider approval or other action of a resolution supporting the Ike Dike structural protection <br />system. <br />_____________________________________________________________________________________ <br />Approved for City Council Agenda <br />__________________________________ _______________________ <br />Corby Alexander,City Manager Date <br /> <br />