this study, monthly, weekly, and daily changes were monitored at four 

 locations in Virginia Beach and one at Camp Pendleton. These profile 

 lines were measured intermittently between November 1956 and May 1963. 

 The maximum vertical change at the 61st Street profile line, observed 

 during this 27-month period, was 2.0 meters and occurred midway between 

 mean sea level and mean high water. Approximately one-half of the 

 dune was lost during the storm of 7 to 8 March 1962. With respect to 

 the profile lines at 15th and 3d Streets, the data "... do not show 

 convincing differences between winter and summer profiles" [Harrison 

 and Wagner, 1964, p. 27) . Poststorm changes measured on both the 

 beach and nearshore area out to depths of 5 meters indicated "... that 

 under great storm conditions the foreshore slope and beach ridge will 

 undergo greater change than the nearshore bottom" (Harrison and Wagner, 

 1964, p. 9). The precise locations of these beach profile lines have 

 been reoccupied. Additional studies were conducted at Fort Story, north 

 of Virginia Beach, by Harrison, et al. (1968), in which more than a 

 dozen environmental variables were measured over a 28-day period. No 

 discussions or conclusions were mentioned. The importance of the beach 

 water table response to tidal fluctuations in the Fort Story area was 

 investigated by Fausak (1970). He found that the water table fluctua- 

 tions decreased about 60 meters from the beach. Studies of the beach 

 water table at Camp Pendleton in 1966, and at Fort Story in 1969, are 

 reported in Harrison, et al . (1971). Multiregression analysis of the 

 data show that the most important variables influencing changes in 

 quantity of foreshore sand (in decreasing order of importance) were 

 changes in ocean Stillwater level, an index of groundwater head, and 

 the number of swash events per unit of time (Harrison, et al., 1971, 

 p. 43). Fausak 's Fort Story beach profile line, which was monitored 

 in August and September 1969, was reoccupied in September 1972. 



A detailed study of beach changes along the outer coast of Virginia 

 was reported in Bullock (1971) and Harrison and Bullock (1972) . In 

 this study, 16 beach locations were surveyed between the Virginia- 

 Maryland and the Virginia-North Carolina State lines for 20 months. 

 These data were then used to calibrate a model which attempted to 

 forecast changes in beach sand volume resulting from storm conditions. 

 "The results indicated that it may be possible to develop prediction 

 equations to forecast beach changes for sections of ocean beach that 

 do not exhibit complex offshore bathymetry" (Bullock, 1971, p. 61) and 

 that initial beach volume was a strong determinant of beach volume 

 change. Six out of seven of these beach profile lines in the Virginia 

 Beach coastal compartment were precisely located and remeasured at bi- 

 monthly intervals between September 1972 and January 1974, by Goldsmith, 

 Smith, and Sutton (1974). Numerous studies of the False Cape area, 

 including beach survey measurements, have been conducted by Shideler, 

 Swift, and McHone (1971). Three out of four of these beach profile 

 lines, going back to 1969, were reoccupied in September 1972 by 



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