PREFACE 
This report was prepared as part of the Coastal Problem Area of the 
Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation (REMR) Research Program. 
The work was carried out jointly under Work Unit 32278, "Rehabilitation of 
Rubble-Mound Structure Toes," of the REMR Program and Work Unit 31269, 
"Stability of Breakwaters," of the Civil Works Coastal Area Program. For the 
REMR Program, Coastal Problem Area Monitor is Mr. John H. Lockhart, Jr., 
Office, Chief of Engineers (OCE), US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). REMR 
Program Manager is Mr. William F. McCleese of the US Army Engineer Waterways 
Experiment Station's (WES's) Structures Laboratory, and Coastal Problem Area 
Leader is Mr. D. D. Davidson of WES's Coastal Engineering Research Center 
(CERC). Messrs. John G. Housley and Lockhart, OCE, are Technical Monitors of 
the Civil Works Coastal Area Program. 
This report is ninth in a series of case histories of Corps breakwater 
and jetty structures at nine Corps divisions. The case histories contained 
herein were extracted from information obtained from several sources (where 
available) which included inspection reports, conferences, telephone conversa- 
tions, project plans and specifications, project files and correspondence, 
design memorandums, literature reviews, model studies, surveys (bathymetric 
and topographic), survey reports, annual reports to the Chief of Engineers, 
House and Senate documents, and general and aerial photography. Unless other- 
wise noted, only prominent changes to the prototype structures subsequent to 
March 1986 are included in this report. 
This work was conducted at WES during the period July to October 1986 
under general direction of Dr. James R. Houston, Chief, CERC, and 
Mr. Charles C. Calhoun, Jr., Assistant Chief, CERC; and under direct super- 
vision of Mr. C. Eugene Chatham, Jr., Chief, Wave Dynamics Division (CW), and 
Mr. D. D. Davidson, Chief, Wave Research Branch (CW-R), CW. This report was 
prepared by Messrs. Francis E. Sargent and Robert R. Bottin, Jr., CW. This 
report was typed by Ms. Myra Willis, CW, and edited by Ms. Shirley A. J. 
Hanshaw, Information Products Division, Information Technology Laboratory, 
WES, 
COL Dwayne G. Lee, EN, was Commander and Director of WES during the 
publication of this report. Dr. Robert W. Whalin was Technical Director. 
