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4. TITLE Cand Sub(((/o; 



EXPERIMENTAL DUNE RESTORATION AND STABILIZATION, 

 NAUSET BEACH, CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS 



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Technical Paper 



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7. AUTHORfsJ 



Paul L. Knutson 



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Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



G31533 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



August 19^ 



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Beachgrass Dune stabilization 



Cape Cod, Massachusetts Dunes 



Coastal ecology Nauset Beach, Massachusetts 



Dune restoration Sand fence 



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In April 1970, experimental plots were established on a baymouth bar at 

 Nauset Harbor on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. On the bar both sand fences and 

 American beachgrass (Ammophita breviliguZata) were tested as alternative 

 techniques for creating and stabilizing dunes. Elevational profiles were 

 made periodically in the test plots from April 1970 to November 1977. The 

 study concluded that sand fences initially capture sand more rapidly than 

 newly planted beachgrass. Once established, however, beachgrass plantings 



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