Inside the Moon Deep Sea Roundup A2 Pothole-a-palooza A6 Traveling Moon A9 Live Music A16 Photo by Natalie Werkhoven Issue 900 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 July 15, 2021 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE After this week it can rightfully be said that the Waves Waterpark is no more. All that is left now is to tear down the building. Photo by Dwight Jackson. By the numbers What Should the New Bob Rainfall Totals Hall Pier Look Like? on the Island The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain. — By Dale Rankin Now is your chance to speak up Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It’s been a strange week here on our By Dale Rankin Location little sandbar. The enormous tourist Nueces County commissioners have crowds that have been swarming The signed a contract for the design of Jul 5 – 11 2021 year to date 2020 Island for months seemed to have the new Bob Hall Pier and are now year to date slowed a bit, maybe because of the reaching out to the public for input persistent rain, and the vehicle count Padre Island: Elbow St. 14.26” through a series of Virtual Town Hall 38.34” 13.81” coming OTB during the holiday meetings and an online survey. weekend just past was around 50,000 Padre Island: Scallop St. 13.23” per day which is significant but not Bob Hall (what was then called 38.50” 16.17” close to the 83,000 we saw in a single Nueces Beach Park) debuted the Padre Island: Cayo Cantiles St. non-holiday weekend in March. The same day as the opening of the brand- 14.32” 37.78” 13.33” strange thing is that even on rainy new Padre Island Causeway on June Citizens can make suggestions 78401 or call/e-mail: Judge Barbara days, in the middle of the week, the 17, 1950. The original pier that for the new pier design by going Canales, 361-888-0263; Barbara. Source: Community beach is still full of people. Go figure. ended in a T-head was about 300 feet online to www.futurebobhallpier. [email protected] Collaborative Rain, Hail, & Snow long, constructed of timber, and cost com or by attending a Virtual Town Commissioner Brent Chesney, Network And speaking of rain…even long- a little over $17,000. The T-head at Hall Meeting. The schedule for the time Islanders have never seen 361-888-0268; Brent.Chesney1@ the end of the pier was destroyed by meetings is as follows: July 22nd at 5 nuecesco.com. weather patterns quite like the ones Hurricane Hanna in July, 2020 and p.m.; July 23rd at 9 a.m. we are having this season. Violent The cost of rebuilding the pier is the remainder of the pier was found The login for the Town Hall FBISD Forms wind-driven rain in short bursts to be damaged beyond repair and will estimate at $20 million which can followed by blasting sun and oven Meeting is https://us02web.zoom. be funding through Certificates of be removed to make room for the new us/j/9987206754#success . This link Advisory heat. We contacted Hayley Adams structure. Obligation issued by Nueces County at the local NOAA office who said will also be on the website. If you or through stand federal grants. “there have been events in years prior The design of the new pier is limited are unable to log in, please mail Committee for that have led to a significant amount to the space described in the state and your comments to 901 Leopard, Plans call for the pier to be open by of rainfall across our area. But in federal permits and cannot expand Room 303.11; Corpus Christi, Texas the summer of 2023. Island Land the case of this year, we have had a beyond those borders. By Dale Rankin pattern of slow moving upper level Last week we reported that officials areas of low pressure that has caused Island projects… at Flour Bluff ISD are considering the increase in rainfall.” Nothing options for the use of 6.7 acres of like a slow moving upper level low empty land on Padre Island which the pressure to put a little rain on your Seawall Beach Needs Widening But district has owned for more than two head. decades. Where Is the Sand? Packery repairs and beach maintenance building By Dale Rankin When Packery Channel was dug in 2005 the project was designed to provide sand to widen the beach along the Michael J. Ellis Seawall which had eroded to less than twenty feet in most places. Lake Schlitterbahn Now, according to information provided to the Island Strategic The land is located on the north Action Committee on Tuesday by Deidre Williams, from Texas side of Whitecap Boulevard on the The water feature in the middle of the A&M Corpus Christi who is the consultant for Packery Channel west side of the canal that passes parking lot at Waves Resort – known maintenance, 70 percent of the beach there is less than 200 feet under the Whitecap bridge west of its to Islanders as Lake Schlitterbahn wide – down from the approximately 400 feet when the channel intersection with SPID. – rose out of its banks on Friday as was first dredged. Williams told the group that there is only the rain pushed the standing ground 250,000 cubic yards of sand available for use in the Packery Velma Soliz-Garcia, Superintendent water out of the lake and across the Channel, while at least 350,000 is at Flour Bluff ISD said the district is Seawall cont. on A4 parking lot. It is the first time that needed to completely restore the beach. Land cont. on A4 Lake Schlitterbahn has ever done that and by Tuesday was back under control. A little Island history According to the information seen on this page we are now at 38 inches of What Happened to Texas Commercial Fishing Industry? rain for the year which is three times what we had by this time last year. The current generation is likely the last;how their livelihood was taken away The water table has left the bar ditches By Mary Craft and wetlands full of standing water and makes beach driving a tooth- Writer’s note: This is the and served their country. They held rattling experience after a downfall. emotional tale of Texas social events at the Fish houses We had a similar spring in 2015 commercial fishermen. A hard- and got rowdy every now and then. when the beach was full of standing pressed group fighting forTheir children were part of the trade, water which left huge potholes. The survival. We understand there are bailing out water from the boats good news is that after a sloshy beach two sides to this story and this is after a storm, cleaning the nets and drive there is usually a free carwash one of them but their voice is one gathering shrimp for bait. who has not been heard before. So courtesy of Mother Nature. The Then came change city crews were out Monday night we listened. spraying for mosquitoes and for the A lifestyle that has been passed In 1979 came word that there was most part we Islanders haven’t had to on for generations is soon to be going to be a change in Texas fishing do the skeeter dance much this year. no more. Historically, there were regulation that was going to affect commercial fishing. These families Island dolphin 400-500 families engaged in this trade all along the 500 mile were being blamed for a supposed Texas Parks and Wildlife and Texas coastline. They were good depletion of redfish under the guise NOAA Office of Law Enforcement families who contributed to their of conservation. But according to local schools, went to church Around cont. on A4 History cont. on A4 July 15, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Deep Sea Roundup Photo by Ronnie Narmour. 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