Shine | DCCM provided the Pelican Causeway survey for a proposed new causeway connecting Galveston Island to Pelican Island. Nedra Foster Townsend, LSLS, RPLS, served as Licensed State Land Surveyor (LSLS), and Joe Mattox, LSLS, RPLS, served as Project Manager.

The project included research of current and historic data to evaluate natural and artificial changes to the landscape. The team also researched court cases affecting boundary locations and calculated tidal datums using Tide Gauge 8771450 Galveston Pier 21.

Surveying services included tidal datum surveys, location of state submerged tracts, establishment of new control, and recovery of existing control. Shine | DCCM also surveyed affected tracts and monumented new take parcels.

Additional services included topographic surveys of take areas, metes-and-bounds descriptions for each take parcel, proposed right-of-way mapping, shoreline surveying, and take parcel mapping.