The Board recommended that a project be adopted by the United States 
authorizing Federal participation by the contribution of Federal funds in 
the amount of one-third of the first cost of the following measures for the 
protection and improvement of the shore of Presque Isle Peninsula. These 
measures comprise artificial placement of approximately 1,100,000 cubic 
yards of sand fill and construction of a seawall, bulkhead, and a groin 
system along the neck and for the remainder of the Peninsula placement of 
approximately 1,000,000 cubic yards of beach material as a feeder beach 
at the Water Works Reservation, distribution of approximately 1,00,000 cubic 
yards additional material in the remainder of the area and removal of 
portions of the Lighthouse jetty and of the existing bulkhead. 
The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views and recommendations of 
the Beach Erosion Board. 
OHIO SHORE LINE OF LAKE ERIE - VURMILION TO SHEFFIELD LAKE 
VILLAGE 
The area studied is located in Lorain County on the south shore of 
Lake Erie from 23 to 37 miles west of Cleveland, Ghio. It lies between 
Vermilion and Sheffield Lake Village, a distance of about 1) miles. 
Lorain Harbor, which has been improved by the United States for navigation 
is located at the mouth of the Black River, in the eastern part of the 
study area. 
Lorain County had a population of about 112,000 in 1940. The principal 
centers of population are the cities of Lorain and Elyria, which had a 
combined population of about 69,000. The property along the shore line of 
the study area has been developed mainly for private residential and 
recreational purposes. Inland areas are devoted mainly to agricultural uses. 
The shore is publicly owned at Waverly, Lakeview, Riverside and Century 
Parks in Lorain. All are open to the public. Lakeview and Century Parks 
have narrow beaches and bathing facilities. The shore at Elyria Water 
Works is also publicly owned, but it is protected by a stone breakwater and 
no beach exists at that locality. 
The shore line of the study area consists principally of eroding bluffs 
of clay, silt and sand averaging 30 feet in height fronted by narrow beaches 
of sand and gravel. Shale outcrops in the bluff just east of Vermilion. 
Analysis of samples of bluff material indicated that in general not more 
than 12 per cent of the material is suitable for beach building. Erosion 
of the bluffs makes available a small volume of beach material. East of 
Vermilion River and Beaver Creek good beaches have formed by accretion 
caused by the jetties at the east sides of these streams. Miscellaneous 
groins and walls have been constructed in an ateempt to prevent erosion of 
the shore. Short groins have generally caused minor accretion on their 
east sides and have reducéd recession of the bluffs to some extent. The 
accretion east of the jetties at Beaver Creek and Vermilion Harbor indicate 
a westward predominance of littoral drift. In the eastern part of the study 
area no marked predominance in direction of littoral drift is apparent. 
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