PREFACE 



This report provides coastal engineers an evaluation of the long-term 

 impact of offshore dredging on benthic fauna at Hillsboro Beach (Broward 

 County), Florida. The report is published under the coastal ecology 

 research program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center 

 (CERC). 



The report was prepared by David B. Turbeville, Director of the South 

 Florida Institute of Marine Science at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Dr. 

 G. Alex Marsh, Professor of Ecology at Florida Atlantic University, sup- 

 ported by grants from the Florida Sea Grant Program and the Joint FAU-FIU 

 Center for Environmental and Urban Problems. The authors acknowledge 

 D.R. Deis and H.D. Rudolph, Florida Department of Natural Resources, for 

 their assistance in the identification of polychaetes, and P. Mikkelson 

 for identifying many of the molluskan species. M. Clark and D. Conner 

 provided invaluable assistance with computer programing. 



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 



