TECHNICAL REPORT No. 4 

 SHORE PROTECTION PLANNING AND DESIGN 



A reprinting of the Beach Erosion Board*s Technical Report No*, 4, 

 Shore Protection Planning and Design with revisions current to May 1961, 

 will be available in October 1961.. The supply of the original report 

 printed in 1954 was exhausted in 1958. Continued demand has indicated the 

 need of reprinting. This report is a comprehensive compendium of available 

 knowledge for solution of coastal engineering problems, and contains a sum- 

 mary of applicable methods, techniques and pertinent data useful to both 

 practicing and research engineers. It is also suitable as a text book for 

 the teaching of coastal engineering subjects. 



This report may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, 

 U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. at $3.00 per copy 

 in the United States. Foreign orders should include $0.75 additional to 

 cover postage. 



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