PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with an analysis 

 of a series of beach profile surveys and littoral environment observations 

 collected during a 4%-year study at three sites on the southeast Florida 

 coast. The work was carried out under the coastal processes program of 

 the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



The report was prepared by Allan E. DeWall, Geologist, under the 

 supervision of Dr. Cyril J. Galvin, Jr., Chief, Coastal Processes Branch, 

 Research Divison. 



Data collection was accomplished by students and staff of the Florida 

 Ocean Sciences Institute, Incorporated [FOSI] , Deerfield Beach, Florida, 

 under CERC Contracts Nos. DACW72-69-C-0018 and DACW72-71-C-0016. Project 

 supervisors at FOSI were W. Gonzalez, from 1969 to 1970, and J. Richter. 

 Principal observers were J. Brown, D. DeCoster, and J. Heon. Computer 

 programing was done at CERC by A. Szuwalski, R. Bruno, J. Balsillie, 

 J. Buchanan, B. Sims, W. Seelig, D. Mowrey, M. Leffler,and R. Hylton. 

 Data reduction was accomplished at CERC with the assistance of D. Fresch, 

 R. Guite, Wai Yin Der, and P. Campos. Mr. Richter completed a preliminary 

 analysis of the data, in the form of contract reports, and is responsible 

 for many of the ideas in this report. The author acknowledges and appreci- 

 ates many helpful review comments from Dean Morrough P. O'Brien, and 

 Drs. Robert G. Dean, Robert L. Wiegel, and Jack W. Pierce. 



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. 



'JOHN H. COUSINS 

 Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



