U.S. ARMY ENGINEER DIVISION, NEW ENGLAND 

 CORPS OF ENGINEERS 

 150 Causeway Street 

 Boston II4, Mass. 



NEDGW 15 February 1957 



SUiSJECT: Interim Report on Hurricane Survey, Narragansett Bay, 

 Rhode Island and I-lassachusetts 



TO: 



Chief of Engineers 

 Department of the Anry 

 Washington 25, D.C. 

 ATT3-ITiON : ENGWF 



AUTHORITY 



!• This report is submitted in partial compliance with 

 authorization contained in Public Law 71, 8Uth Congress, 1st session, 

 adopted 15 June 1955> which reads: 



" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That 

 in view of the severe damage to the coastal and tidal areas of 

 the eastern and southern United States from the occurrence of 

 hurricanes, particularly the hurricanes of August 31, 195U, and 

 September 11, 1951^, in the New England, New York, and New Jersey 

 coastal and tidal areas, and the hvirricane of October 15, 195U, 

 in -the coastal and tidal areas extending south to South Carolina, 

 and in view of the damages caused by other hurricanes in the past, 

 the Secretary of the Army, in cooperation with the Secretary of 

 Commerce and other Federal agencies concerned with hurricanes, 

 is hereby authorized and directed/'to cause an examination and 

 survey to be made of the eastern and southern seaboard of the 

 United States with respect to hurricanes, with particular refer- 

 ence to areas ■vAere severe damages have occurred. 



SEC. 2. Such survey, to be made under the direction 

 of the Chief of Engineers, shall include the securing of data on 

 the behavior and frequency of hurricanes, and the determination 

 of methods of forecasting their paths and improvinf; warning 

 services, and of possible means of preventing loss of human 



