January 19^1 and a contract between the Corps of Engineers and Harrison 

 County was drawn and executed on 23 January 195l« Policy of the Corps 

 of Engineers' District Office at I'tobile with respect to prosecution of 

 the work was declared to be as follows! 



a* That all plans and specifications for the work would be 

 reviewed and approved in their engineering arei construction aspects as 

 required by the Act of Congress authorizing the project, 



b. That all bids received by the county would be examined 

 by the District Office and, if such bids appeared excessive, this fact 

 would be discussed with the sponsoring agency, with appropriate sug»* 

 gestions and recommendations. If the county deemed it inadvisable to 

 follow such suggestions or recommendations, the Mobile District would 

 not require the rejection of any bid or the readvertisement of any work 

 provided the low bidder was qualified and all engineering and construction 

 requirements were satisfactory. 



c» That since the Mobile District woiild be held accountable 

 for any progress payments made, such payments would be conditional on 

 the assurance in the form of a guarantee from the county that the entire 

 project would be completed. 



Structural repairs to the concrete stepped-slab were commenced on 

 16 January 1950 and completed by the end of the year. The work consisted 

 of chipping out cracks to provide space for a minimum of 6 inches of 

 gunite grout, cleaning, sandblasting, and pressure grouting. A membrane 

 curing compound was applied over the finished grout. All old reinforcing 

 bars were cleaned of rust ty sandblasting and mesh reinforcing, properly 

 spliced and tied, was placed where needed before commencement of grouting. 

 The sidewalk was removed and the broken concrete used in the construction 

 of groins at Henderson Point and at several other localities along the 

 shore* 



Placing of the beach fill was commenced on 3 January 19^1 and 

 completed during November of the same year, a total construction period 

 of about 11 months. Creation of the beach was accon^ilished by the direct 

 placement method. Two dredges were employed, one with 20-inch discharge 

 beginning at Henderson Point and working eastward and the other with 

 16-inch discharge commencing at Biloxi Lighthouse and working westward. 

 Material was obtained from a parallel borrow channel, dredged to a 

 depth of lU feet, about 1,500 feet offshore. Specifications for the 

 project called for beach material to be cauposed of sand having 20 percent 

 or less of foreign matter. In order to determine the composition of 



