Virginia Institute of flarine Science (VIMS) and Old Dominion University 

 (ODU) personnel, and by Goldsmith, Smith, and Sutton (1974), at bimonthly 

 intervals, through January 1974. Copies of all the above previous beach 

 profile data are stored at VIMS. 



Beach changes were monitored once a month (since 1966) at 

 1,000-foot (305 meters) intervals between 49th Street and Rudee Inlet 

 by an engineering firm under contract to the City of Virginia Beach 

 and the U.S. Army Engineer District, Norfolk. Each June these 

 profile lines are extended out to depths of 25 feet (8 meters) (H.J. 

 Fine, Chief, Water Resources Planning Branch, U.S. Army Engineer 

 District, Norfolk, personal communication, 1972) . This 4-kilometer 

 stretch of shoreline includes the major zone of public concern about 

 beach erosion, but less than 10 percent of the total ocean shoreline 

 of southeastern Virginia. 



A beach survey network consisting of 13 beach survey locations over 

 a 24-kilometer stretch of coast between Rudee Inlet and the Virginia- 

 North Carolina border was set up in the summer of 1972. These profile 

 lines were surveyed at bimonthly intervals with the cooperation and 

 assistance of the personnel of the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and graduate student volunteers at VIMS. 

 This survey network consisted of three older profile lines of Shideler, 

 Swift, McHone (1971), the five profile lines of the Back Bay National 

 Wildlife Refuge personnel, and five profile lines of Bullock (1971). 



2. Purposes of This Study . 



The previous studies indicate large variations in beach response 

 at these different profile lines from both storms and daily low 

 wave energy-type processes. Thus, the primary objective of this 

 study was to investigate beach behavior by measuring beach profile 

 changes for 27 months over a 45-kilometer stretch of coastline con- 

 taining a variety of beach types and an irregular offshore bathymetry. 

 Included in this study is a comprehensive report on beach changes 

 along this coast and a collection of data in uniform format that will 

 be available for future engineering studies. The ;iata from these 

 analyses are summarized in the form of graphs and included in Appendixes 

 B and C. The data were analyzed to obtain the information on the 

 following general topics discussed in this report; 



(a) Changes at each profile line from monthly and poststorm 

 survey data. 



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