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1. REPORT NUMBER 2. GOVT ACCESSION NO.| 3. RECIPIENT’S CATALOG NUMBER 
MR 80-9 
4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 
BEACH CHANGES AT LONG BEACH ISLAND, 
NEW JERSEY, 1962-73 
Miscellaneous Report 
6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 
7. AUTHOR(s) 8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(a@ 
Martin C. Miller 
David G. Aubrey DACW72-79-C-0020 
Joseph Karpen 
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 
Science Applications, Inc. 
4900 Water's Edge Drive, Suite 255 
Raleigh, North Carolina 27606 
CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 
Department of the Army 
Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CS) 
Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 
14. MONITORING AGENCY NAME & ADDRESS(if different from Controlling Office) 
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK 
AREA & WORK UNIT NUMBERS 
D31194 
12. REPORT DATE 
October 1980 
13. NUMBER OF PAGES 
289 dy: 
15. SECURITY CLASS. (of thie report) 
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15a. DECL ASSIFICATION/ DOWNGRADING 
SCHEDULE 
16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of this Report) 
17. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the abstract entered in Block 20, if different from Report) 
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 
18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 
- KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side if necessary and identify by block number) 
Beach changes Groins 
Beach erosion control Long Beach Island, N.J. 
Beach profile surveys Storm erosion 
20. ABSTRACT (Continue an reverse side if necesaary and identify by block number) 
Beach profile line data collected as part of the Beach Evaluation Program 
(BEP) were examined from 32 profile sites along Long Beach Island, New Jersey. 
A total of 2,158 profile line surveys were examined, using empirical eigen- 
function analysis and other measures of beach variability. Most profile lines 
have shown an accretionary trend since 1962 with rates between 2.3 and 0.24 
‘eter per year in spite of erosion estimates due to sea level rise on the 
order of 0.68 meter per year. A great deal of variability in profile line 
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