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 eighth in a series of case histories of Corps breakwater 

 and jetty structures at nine Corps divisions. The case histories contained 

 herein were extracted from information obtained from several sources (where 

 available) which included inspection reports, conferences, telephone conver- 

 sations, project plans and specifications, project files and correspondence, 

 design memorandums, 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 other- 

 wise noted, only prominent changes to the prototype structures subsequent to 

 March 1985 are included in this report. 



This work was conducted at WES during the period February to July 1986 

 under general direction of Dr. James R. Houston, Chief, CERC, and 

 Mr. Charles C. Calhoun, Jr., Assistant Chief, CERC; and under direct super- 

 vision of Mr. C. Eugene Chatham, Jr., Chief, Wave Dynamics Division (CW), and 

 Mr. D. D. Davidson, Chief, Wave Research Branch (CW-R), CW. This report was 

 prepared by Messrs. Francis E. Sargent and Robert R. Bottin, Jr., CW, and 

 typed by Ms. Myra Willis, CW. This report was edited by Ms. Shirley A. J. 

 Hanshaw, Information Products Division, Information Technology Laboratory, 

 WES. 



COL Dwayne G. Lee, EN, was Commander and Director of WES during the 

 publication of this report. Dr. Robert W. Whalin was Technical Director. 



