Housatonic River to Ash Creek, and State of California - 

 Point Mugu to San Pedro Breakwater, and a listing of 

 those cooperative studies still in progress are presented. 



ISSUE NO. 2 - 1 April 1954 



II -D "Tidal Current Meters" 



A description with photographs of modifications made by 

 personnel of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation to the 

 Peagrara Meter originally designed by Dean G. B. Peagrara 

 of Columbia University to measure water velocities. Mo- 

 difications to the meter described permit its use for 

 measuring flew in natural channels under influence of tides. 



"Progress Eeports on Research Sponsored by the Beach Erosion 

 Board" 



Abstracts from progress reports on the several research 

 contracts in force between the Beach Erosion Board and 

 universities or other institutions, and brief statements 

 regarding the status of research projects being prosecuted 

 at the Board's c«m laboratoiry are presented. 



"Beach Erosion Studies" 



Summaries of completed beach erosion control study reports 

 on Hampton Beach New Hampshire, Selkirk Shores State Park 

 New York, State of Cfliio - Euclid to Chagrin River, Lake 

 Erie Shore of the State of (Siio, Shore of Galveston Bay 

 from April Fool Point to Kemah Texas, and Anaheim Bay 

 Harbor California, and a listing of those studies still 

 in progress are presented, 



ISSUE NO. 3 - 1 July 1954 



II-E "Shore Protection in Harrison County, Mississippi" by Francis 

 F. Escoffier and William L. Dolive, U. S. Army Engineer 

 District Mobile. 



A description of the construction and effectiveness of the 

 Federally authorized beach erosion control project. A 

 protective beach was provided for about 25 miles of Mis- 

 sissippi Sound shoreline and repairs made to an existing 

 seawall. 



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