Reef Ball Project(s)

• The Sportsman's Guide May 26, 2004 The Outdoor News Hound -- Dearly Departed Create Fish Habitat'
• Reef balls' - Houstonian - USA & World Sept 28, 2004 
• Reef Balls in Texas (Pictures)
• April 9, 2004 Sea burial: Ashes to ashes, dust to reef, Houston Chronicle   
• AP Wire | 11-03-2003 | Cremated remains turned into living monument in artificial reefs in Texas 
• Reef Ball Foundation Texas Program
• Dec 8, 2003 The Brownsville Herald (Texas) Coastal waters soon to offer final resting place
• August 30, 2000 / Texas Parks and Wildlife Department: "TTMB Reef Enhancement Project Proposal"
• Star Telegram | 02/09/2003 | UNDER The Sea (San Padre)
• The Texas' artificial reef program has applied for 8 Pallet Ball molds to be used near South Padre Island in a community project in 1997
• Nov. 1999, Jan Culberson of the Texas Artificial Reef Program confirmed that Texas Reef Ball were covered in oculina corals..
• The Dallas Aquarium has a Reef Ball display.
• Reef Balls^TM: How Combining Designed Reefs with Oil Superstructures used as Artificial Reefs can help the overall reef system to better mimic natural reef systems
• TTMB Reef Enhancement Project Proposal
• Eternal Reefs Texas Press Release

South Padre Island, TX

Cut off-Mid August 2003

Placement Mid October 2003

Artificial Reef Coordinators for the State

PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT
4200 SMITH SCHOOL ROAD
AUSTIN TX 78744-3292
paul.hammerschmidt@tpwd.state.tx.us

Artificial Reef Coordinates for the State

Barr's Reef 100 Reef Balls 29° 08' 20.313" 94° 42' 02.902"
Port Isabel-1169L Reef 32 Reef Balls 25° 58' 09.120" 97° 03' 58.990"
Barr's Reef   100 Reef Balls at Lat: 29° 08.339' Lon: 94° 42.048'
Port Isabel Reef  32 Reef Balls at Lat: 25° 58.152' Lon: 97° 03.983'
(coordinates this color and font are in NAD83)

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