PREFACE 



This report (Vol. II) is published to provide coastal engineers 

 with an evaluation of benthic conununities adjacent to a restored beach. 

 Volume I provides a comprehensive study of the impact of beach nourishment 

 and offshore borrowing on nearshore and coral reef fish populations. Both 

 studies were conducted at Hallandale (Broward County), Florida. The work 

 was carried out under the coastal ecology research program of the U.S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



The report was prepared by Dr. G.A. Marsh, Associate Professor of 

 Ecology; P.R. Bowen and D.B. Turbeville, candidates for the M.S. degree; 

 D.R. Deis who recently completed his M.S. degree (now a biologist for the 

 Florida Department of Environmental Regulation); and Dr. W.R. Courtenay, 

 Jr. , Professor of Zoology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 

 under CERC Contract No. DACW72-77-M-0639. 



The authors express their appreciation to W.N. Watkins and A. Abel 

 for photographic support; and to D. Wilkins for graphics support. 



R.M. Yancey was the contact monitor, under the general supervision 

 of E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, CERC. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



