except that it believed that a stockpile of beach material, deposited on 
the shore east of the area to be restored and replenished periodically, 
will probably maintain the restored shore without additional shore structures. 
Accordingly, it recommended a plan of restoration and protection of the 
shore of Cape May City from Wilmington Avenue to a point 3,300 feet west of 
Windsor Avenue comprising artificial placement of approximately 832,000 cubic 
yards of beach material on the shore to create a beach 100 to 200 feet wide 
above mean high water, artificial placement of 300,000 cubic yards of beach 
material on the adjoining 3,000 feet of shore to the east, construction of 
5 new timber groins and extension of 5 existing stone groins, the groin con- 
struction and extensions to be deferred pending demonstration of need. 
In accordance with statutory requirements, the Board stated its opinion 
thats 
a. It is advisable for the United States to adopt a project for 
protection and improvement of the shore at Cape May City, New Jersey; 
b. The public interest involved in the proposed work is sub- 
stantial. It is associated with prevention of damages to public property 
and recreational benefits to the general public; 
ce The United States should bear a share of the expense computed 
by totalling the cost applicable to protecting the Federally owned frontage 
plus 1/3 of the first cost of measures for the restoration and protection 
of the other publicly owned portions of the shore and based on the percent- 
age of public ownership of the shore frontage at the time of completion 
of the work. 
The Board recommended that a project be adopted by the United States 
authorizing Federal participation, subject to certain conditions, by 
the contribution of Federal funds in an amount equal to the portion of 
the cost applicable to protecting the Federally owned frontage plus 1/3 of 
the first cost of measures for the restoration and protection of other 
publicly owned portions of the shore of Cape May City between Wilmington 
Avenue and a point 3,300 feet west of Windsor Avenue. 
The Chief of Engineers concurred in the recommendations of the Beach 
Erosion Board. 
PRESQUE ISLE PENINSULA, PENNSYLVANIA 
Presque Isle is located on the south shore of Lake Erie at Erie, 
Pennsylvania, about 78 miles southwest of Buffalo, New York, and 102 miles 
northeast of Cleveland, Ohio. The peninsula is a compound recurved sand- 
spit projecting a maximum distance of about 2.5 miles from an otherwise 
straight mainland shore. From its root to its distal end, it has a lake 
shore line over six miles in length. The large landlocked bay between 
the peninsula and the mainland provides a spacious harbor which has been 
improved by the Federal government under the navigation project for Erie 
Harbor. The peninsula provides valuable protection to the harbor. 
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