PREFACE 



This report was prepared as part of the Coastal Problem Area of the 

 Repair, Evaluation, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation (REMR) Research Program. 

 The work was carried out jointly under Work Unit 32278, "Rehabilitation of 

 Rubble-Mound Structure Toes," of the REMR Program and Work Unit 31269, 

 "Stability of Breakwaters," of the Civil Works Coastal Area Program. For the 

 REMR Program, Coastal Problem Area Monitor is Mr. John H. Lockhart, Jr., 

 Office, Chief of Engineers (OCE), US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). REMR 

 Program Manager is Mr. William F. McCleese of the US Army Engineer Waterways 

 Experiment Station's (WES's) Structures Laboratory, and Coastal Problem Area 

 Leader is Mr. D. D. Davidson of WES's Coastal Engineering Research Center 

 (CERC). Messrs. John G. Housley and Lockhart, OCE, are Technical Monitors of 

 the Civil Works Coastal Area Program. 



This report is seventh in a series of case histories of Corps breakwater 

 and jetty structures at nine Corps divisions. The case histories were written 

 from information obtained from several sources (where available) which 

 included inspection reports, conferences, telephone conversations, project 

 plans and specifications, project files and correspondence, design memoranda, 

 literature reviews, model studies, surveys (bathymetric and topographic), 

 survey reports, annual reports to the Chief of Engineers, House and Senate 

 documents, and general and aerial photography. Unless otherwise noted, any 

 changes to the prototype structures subsequent to October 1985 are not 

 included. 



This work was conducted at WES during the period October 1986 to April 

 1987 under general direction of Dr. James R. Houston and Mr. Charles C. 

 Calhoun, Chief and Assistant Chief, CERC, respectively; and under direct 

 supervision of Mr. C. E. Chatham, Jr., Chief, Wave Dynamics Division (CW), and 

 Mr. D. D. Davidson, Chief, Wave Research Branch. This report was prepared by 

 Messrs. Francis E. Sargent and Robert R. Bottin, Jr., Wave Processes Branch, 

 CW, CERC, and it was edited by Ms. Shirley A. J. Hanshaw, Information Products 

 Division, Information Technology Laboratory, WES. 



Commander and Director of WES during publication of this report was 

 COL Dwayne G. Lee, EN. Technical Director was Dr. Robert W. Whalin. 



