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The Ike Dike is a proposed coastal barrier that, when completed, would protect the Galveston Bay in Texas, United States. The project would be a dramatic enhancement of the existing Galveston Seawall , complete with floodgates, which would protect more of Galveston , the Bolivar Peninsula , the Galveston Bay Area , and Houston .
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Bolivar Peninsula beach devastation from Hurricane Ike Bolivar Point - September 13, 2008 Damage from Ike in Gilchrist. Bolivar Peninsula got the strong side of the storm. [31] Bolivar Peninsula, just east across the water from the landfall site on Galveston Island, had been submerged under the storm tide. [32]
Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula are generally at the greatest risk. However, though the island and the peninsula provide some shielding, [42] [43] the bay shoreline still faces significant danger from storm surge. [44] Hurricane Ike, the most economically and environmentally destructive event on the bay since 1900, struck in 2008. [45]
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It was reopened on September 11, 2010, two days before the second anniversary of Hurricane Ike's destruction of the dike. [ 6 ] Residents of Texas City are given tags to enter the dike via automobile for free, while visitors outside the city must pay a $10 entry fee between 6 am and 9 pm during the summer months.
The Bolivar Peninsula itself is a census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States, and part of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The entire peninsula was severely damaged during Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008; [ 1 ] re-building efforts were still continuing as late as 2013.
Hurricane Ike (/ aɪ k /) was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a similar track to the 1900 Galveston hurricane.