34 OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



permission to have this pubhcation translated into Spanish and French 

 and the initial publication of 2,500 copies has been exhausted. It is 

 to be republished this summer in revised form. It is made looseleaf 

 because science is changing so rapidly that every few months there is 

 something we want to change and we made it in the form of looseleaf. 



I think I will hand this up in case the committee would like to look 

 at it. 



I believe, gentlemen, that that constitutes what I had prepared to 

 say to you this morning. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Caldwell, do not some States maintain beach 

 erosion control boards, too? 



Mr. Caldwell. A number of the States have somewhere within 

 their State government some responsible agency to look after its 

 interests and work with the Corps of Engineers if necessary on this 

 thing. 



Actually there are not any State agencies except at the University 

 of Florida which has a small coastal engineering laboratory. A num- 

 ber of our State universities have as part of their engineering curric- 

 ulum, some of this wave testing; but you might say the compact and 

 integrated program of researcli in coastal engineering began when 

 Cono:ress instructed the Board to start research in 1945 and that has 

 really brought the picture together in this country. 



I do not think any foreign country has any one agency really looking 

 at this thing as intently as we have been looking at it here. 



Mr. Miller. Do you have questions? 



Mr. Oliver. Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Oliver. 



Mr. Oliver. I merely wanted to say that I have been tremendously 

 interested in what you have had to say, Mr. Caldwell. Coming from 

 the coastal area in southwestern Maine, we have had considerable 

 trouble with not only hurricane tidal flooding but also northeasters 

 causing great damage. 



In the month of January, we suffered in our coastal areas quite 

 seriously and I have been in quite close contact with General Sibley 

 in the New England office about this situation. 



I am wondering, in order to perhaps serve these areas as effectively 

 as possible, just how does one go about getting a beach erosion study 

 or a tidal water damage study made? 



Mr. Caldwell. I think that will come with the next speaker, 

 sir. If it is all right with you, I will duck that question and I think 

 the next speaker is prepared to talk about that very thing. 



Mr. Oliver. Thank you very much for the very interesting 

 discussion. 



Mr, Caldwell. Thank you, sir. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Dorn. 



Mr. Dorn. I have no questions. 



I was merely impressed by the fact that this tremendous research 

 has been done which is obviously very valuable to the world. 



Mr. Miller. I can testify to that, too, because we had a great 

 deal of trouble in California, particularly southern California, with 

 this problem. I know the great interest there. We also have a lot 

 of oil wells off the coast of southern California which have given us a 

 lot of headaches in this respect. 



Counsel? 



