ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 31 -- The University of Texas at Arlington issued the following news release:
A stretch of the Texas mid-coast is facing sediment transport-related challenges, and a researcher from The University of Texas at Arlington is leading the effort to consider a range of potential solutions.
Yu Zhang, professor of civil engineering at UTA, has received funding from the Texas General Land Office to launch the second phase of a project studying how to remedy sediment imbalance along the coast of Brazoria and Matagorda counties just southwest of Houston. There, erosion is eating away beaches and threatening one of the nation's most important shipping channels, while excessive sediments are choking a coastal stream.
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