Preface 



The field study and analysis described in this report were performed by the 

 U.S.. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station's (WES's) Coastal 

 Engineering Research Center (CERC) and Geotechnical Laboratory (GL) for the 

 U.S. Army Engineer (USAE) District, New York. A Pilot Study was designed 

 and conducted off the north New Jersey shore at the approved sand borrow site 

 for the Sea Bright Beach Erosion Control Project during September 1995 to test 

 and evaluate various technologies for characterizing ordnance contamination. 

 USAE Division, Huntsville, reviewed and approved the pilot study safety plan. 

 USAE District, New York, provided survey vessel support. The U.S. Coast 

 Guard Station at Sandy Hook provided dockage, logistical support, and an 

 operation base. Rangers at the Fort Hancock National Park and Explosive 

 Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team members at Fort Monmouth and Earle Naval Air 

 Station provided valuable input on the nature and history of ordnance use and 

 finds in the study area. CERC coordinated the overall study, analysis, and 

 reporting. GL coordinated the magnetometer data collection and data analysis. 

 CR Environmental provided the research vessel with Global Positioning System 

 (GPS) position controls used for the magnetometer survey, Edgetech conducted 

 the side-scan sonar and X-star surveys, and Geometries furnished and operated 

 the magnetometer. Additional magnetic data processing was conducted by 

 Messrs. Douglas DeProspo, Erick Cleary, and Thomas Bell of Arete 

 Engineeering Technologies Corporation (AETC). USAE District, New York, 

 personnel responsible for project oversight include Mr. Joseph Zaraszczak and 

 Ms. Lynn Bocamazo. 



WES participants in the field study were Messrs. Timothy Welp, Michael 

 Tubman, Douglas Lee, and William Kucharski from CERC's Prototype and 

 Analysis Branch (PMAB); Ms. Joan Pope, Chief of CERC's Coastal Structures 

 and Evaluation Branch; and Dr. Richard D. Lewis of GL's Engineering 

 Geophysics Branch. Contract personnel contributing to the field effort were 

 Messrs. Alfred Ackerknecht and Lynn Edwards (Geometries), Mr. John H. 

 Ryther, Jr. (CR Environmental), and Mr. William Charbonneau (Edgetech). 

 Participants in the field investigations from USAE District, New York, were 

 Messrs. Joseph Mayers, Ronald Burns, Douglas Wilson, Joseph Zaraszczak, 

 Daniel Petrie, and Frank Santangelo Mr. Timothy LaFontaine of USAE District, 

 New York, coordinated the support of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Survey 



