areas comprise placement of beach fill, supplemented in certain cases with 

 planting of dune grass and periodic nourishment of the beach. They further 

 found that the public benefits of the work would be insignificant, and 

 therefore made no determination of economic justification. They recom- 

 mended that no project be adopted authorizing Federal participation in any 

 beach erosion control measures for the area, and that no share of the cost 

 of constructing any improvement be borne by the United States. They further 

 recommended that any beach erosion control measures which may be undertaken 

 by local interests, based upon their own determination of economic justifi- 

 cation, be accomplished in accordance with the plans proposed in this report. 

 The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views and recommendations of the 

 Beach Erosion Board. 



SHORE LINE OP LAKE BRIE PROM OHIO-MICHIGAN STATE LINE TO MARBLEHEAD, OHIO 



The purposes of the investigation were determination of methods and 

 costs for protecting the shores of the study area and appropriate changes in 

 recommendations contained in the Beach Erosion Board's 1944 report on this 

 area (B.E.B. Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1947) and development of specific plans 

 and estimates of their costs for restoration and protection of publicly 

 owned shores at Metzger Marsh, Crane Creek State Park, the area opposite 

 State Highway No. 2 west of Port Clinton, and East Harbor State Park. The 

 area studied is located all within Lucas and Ottawa Counties, except for 

 Kelleys Island in Erie County, on the south shore of Lake Erie north and 

 east of Toledo, Ohio. It includes the north and south shores of Mauraee 

 Bay at the western end of Lake Erie, the westernmost 35 miles of the south 

 shore of Lake Erie between Little Cedar Point and a point about 1/2 mile 

 east of Marblehead Light, and offshore islands, North Bass, Middle Bass, 

 South Bass and Kelleys Islands. Toledo Harbor and Channel, Port Clinton at 

 the mouth of Portage River, and Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island, have all 

 been improved by the United States for navigation. 



A population of over 3-1/2 million resided within a 60-mile radius of 

 the study area in 1950 and the larger metropolitan areas have shown increases 

 of over 20 percent to 1959. Toledo is adjacent to the study area and Detroit, 

 Michigan lies within the 60-mile radius. Where property along the shore line 

 has been developed, it has been mainly for private residential or recreational 

 purposes. Extensive commercial development has taken place near the mouth 

 of Maumee River at the extreme western end of the study area. The City of 

 Toledo owns shore frontage at Bay View Park near the mouth of Maumee River and 

 the City of Port Clinton owns Lakeview Park immediately east of the mouth of 

 Portage River. The State of Ohio owns shore areas at Metzger Marsh, Crane 

 Creek State Park, Camp Perry and a half-mile stretch of beach fronting State 

 Highway No. 2, all west of Port Clinton, and at Catawba Island and East Harbor 

 State Parks to the east thereof. The State also owns waterfront property on 

 the western shore of South Bass Island and about 500 feet of shore on the 

 north shore of Kellys Island. There is Federally owned shore frontage at the 

 Brie Proving Grounds Reservation west of Camp Perry and at a small National 

 Park area near the neck of South Bass Island, the latter being the location 

 of Perry's Victory Memorial Monument. A small public bathing beach owned by 



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