Gulf coast marsh?

[Kingfisher789]

I think what your wanting to build is what they call a bird viewing platform .

[LuckyCards2006]

I think what your wanting to build is what they call a bird viewing platform .

lol, exactly.


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[CastAndBlast]

You can not build a pier....you CAN build an elevated roosting structure though [emoji51]

[Greenheadless]

Hey, if some company can buy a island and build a huge oil refinery on that island. I think you can build a pier to the water on your property. F them. Build it, if someone has a problem with it, ask them how and why they are allowing that refinery to be built over near Port A., on a island. I am sure they are going to do a hole hell of a lot more damage to the environment than you would by digging a some post holes and making a pier over the marsh, so you are not destroying more marsh, by just brining in a bunch of oyster shell, dumping it to built it up, so you can have a walk way to the water. I know people used to have cabins along some islands years ago. I know we used to stay in a cabin along the Land Cut, those had piers down to the water and out into the water, there were a bunch of them, they did not hurt anything. I have heard you have to get a federal permit to build those cabins now days, not sure if that was the case back when those cabins were built, likely why there are not many of them any more.

Just shows you how our government works, an individual wants to do something small which will result in little to zero damage to the environment. The government makes a big deal out of it, and either says no or you have to pay for a expensive permit. But then they will let a large company basically completely destroy all the wildlife on a island to build a monster oil refinery in a bay. Nothing bad could ever happen there. Why they allowed that crap? The only thing that makes sense is pay offs and lots of money. The chances that refinery is going to have spills into the bay, are very high. Why they did not build that refinery on land, away from any place where runoff could wind up in the water, baffles me. If you were an individual and bought the same island, the feds would tell you what you could and could not do and threaten you with huge fines and jail time, even though you paid for it. You can bet, nobody will get punished that will amount to anything, every time, that refinery has a leak or spill of some type that kills marine life in the bay.

I would build the pier, if someone asks, tell them it was there when you got there and F off.

Why you so mad broh? Feds dont govern the cabins in landcut btw.

[Greenheadless]

One more bit of info on the subject, if the feds want to give you any crap about building a pier over your marshy land. Ask them about the large piers they built over marsh land, in the Aransas Wildlife Refuge. They have numerous piers out over marsh. One of them is huge and had to require multiple pieces of heavy equipment to be drive a long ways out across that marsh, to build that huge, very tall pier. That thing has to be over a mile long, that was done in recent times, it was not there back in the 80s and 90s, when we bow hunted there a lot. They built those piers out over marsh that is considered very sensitive areas, that huge pier, is over the nesting areas of the whooping cranes, when they are in the area. They can build a huge pier over where most of the remaining whooping cranes on earth nest, but then they want to give you crap over building a pier on your property.
This is all info you should throw at them, if they tell you, that you can't build your pier. If by some chance, they say no problem, then shake their hand and get to work. If by some chance they do say you can build the pier, get the info of the person who said you could and maybe even record the conversation. Because, others within the same branch of government will interpret things differently and be a royal PAITA.

Dang, I learn something new every day. I didn’t know that the whooping cranes nested at Aransas.

[Jason Slocum]

If you build it they will come. They will also want to see permits and signed forms. Do this improperly and you’ll have to pay for the removal
and pay for any damages they they find. If you stick a 4x4 post in the ground in the wrong spot, it could cost you thousands. I’d be 110% sure you have all your ducks in a row, and make sure you’ve been cleared by at least 3 different agencies and you’ll have to keep that paperwork forever.

Drive an airboat on the wrong spot at the aransas refuge and you’ll be filing for bankruptcy. The Jeep that drove on the PINS wetlands got charged down to the square centimeter for restoration and damages.

For your sake I hope you’ll be given the green light and aren’t in any restricted areas and get to build a nice walkway. However, before you even think about doing anything you need to do some research with the GLO, to find out what you can do if anything.

I’m not familiar with that area specifically, but 90% of the piers, cabins, and structures you see around the bays have been permitted from the start and can’t be changed. For example bay cabins can only occupy the same or smaller square foot (plus height restrictions and lengths/widths of existing piers). If the permit said a 10x10x10 shack with a 10x2’ pier it had better be that or smaller footprint. The GLO and Tpwd will go out and check and measure to make sure you haven’t exceeded what’s on the permit.

Jason Slocum