GBCPA's History
GBCPA was founded in January 1974, and is an organization of private citizens who are working to keep the Bay waterways and adjacent land areas suitable as a recreational and living environment.

GBCPA was formed as a result of a Corps of Engineers project to build a 25-foot high levee, 100-feet wide with a roadway on top, along the Bay waterfront from Morgan’s Point to Kemah. Bayfront property owners and others were alerted. Opposition was organized and the incredible proposal was defeated.

At that time, the need was recognized for some organized body to be on the watch for attempts by anyone threatening the Bay’s fragile environment, and GBCPA was born.

Our Projects
GBCPA has been on watch and at the ready. We have had some big battles and a lot of little ones. Some projects, that were examined and thought not in the long-term interest of the Bay and its multiple-use beneficiaries, got approved by the State and Federal permitting agencies in spite of us. Others didn’t get past the proposal stage because of us. In 1992, GBCPA became less active after the death of John A. Grimes, an avid environmentalist and mayor of Morgan’s Point, who was the soul of GBCPA.

GBCPA Is Reactivated
In 1998, environmental attorney Jim Blackburn reactivated the organization due to current problems within the Galveston Bay system. Blackburn is the chair of GBCPA.

Since its re-activation only two years ago, GBCPA has continued its tradition of citizen activism and successes. Two major successes in 1998 led by GBCPA have been winning a three-year re-study of the Clear Creek channelization project and forcing an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Ned. S. Holmes Bayport Container Terminal in Galveston Bay.

GBCPA Today
In recent years GBCPA has been standing by to work for Galveston Bay and its estuaries as the need arises. There are no active projects or initiatives in the works, but please check back with us for updates.

Contact Us

GBCPA
PO Box 323
Seabrook, Texas 77586-0323
(Please call for delivery instructions)
gbcpa@peoplepc.com
Please call Nancy Edmonson at
Tele:   (281) 291-8355