The Board called attention to the desirability of coordinated action 
by owners to protect a stretch of frontage under any plan of protection for 
privately owned shores, and the necessity of adequately protecting the ends 
of the work to prevent flanking. The Board recommended that private owners 
adopt one of the plans of protection presented by the District Engineer, or 
the plan without groins described above, selecting that most suitable to the 
desired use of their shore frontages. Existing Federal law includes no 
policy for Federal assistance in the cost of protecting privately owned 
shores, consequently no Federal participation in the cost of the foregoing 
work was recommended. 
In accordance with existing statutory requirements, the Board stated 
its opinion that; 
ae it is advisable for the United States to adopt projects 
authorizing Federal participation in the cost of protecting and improving 
the Lake Erie shore of Ohio at Lakeview Park in Lorain and at the proposed 
Beaver Creek State Park; 
b. The public interest involved in the proposed measures at 
Lakeview Park is substantial. At the Beaver Creek State Park, the public 
interest will be substantial after acquisition of the shore by the State. 
These interests are associated with the direct damages to public property 
prevented and the recreational benefits to the general public; 
c. The share in the cost which in the opinion of the Board 
should be borne by the United States is one-third of the first cost of con- 
struction for Lakeview Park, and for the proposed Beaver Creek State Park, 
one-ninth of the first cost of the proposed fill and in addition one-third 
of the first cost of the proposed groins. 
The Board recommended that projects be adopted by the United States 
authorizing Federal participation, subject to certain conditions by the 
contribution of Federal funds toward the cost of the measures for the pro- 
tection and improvement of the Lake Erie shore of Ohio as follows: 
a. At the proposed Beaver Creek State Park, artificial place- 
ment of approximately 580,000 cubic yards of sand fill and construction 
of nine steel sheet piling groins, the Federal contribution to be 1/9 of 
the cost of the fill and 1/3 of the cost of the groins; 
b. At Lakeview Park, Lorain, artificial placement of approx- 
imately 100,000 cubic yards of sand fill, construction of ane new steel 
sheet piling groin and adjoining section of seawall and reconstruction and 
extension of 3 existing groins; the Federal contribution to be 1/3 of the 
cost thereof. 
The Chief of Engineers concurred generally in the views and recommenda- 
tions of the Beach Erosion Board, except for the project at Beaver Creek 
State Park. As the State of Ohio had formally notified the District 
Engineer subsequent to the Beach Erosion Board's report that the state 
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