SHEFFIELD LAKE COMMUNITY PARK, OHIO 



The purpose of the investigation was to determine the best means of 

 protecting park property and of restoring and improving the beach to pro- 

 vide a public bathing beach. The study area, located in Sheffield Lake 

 Village, Lorain County, Ohio, included the shore of the Community Park 

 about 800 feet in length, all owned by the village. The 1960 permanent 

 populations of the village and Lorain County were respectively 6,884 and 

 217,500. The shore of the study area is exposed to waves of Lake Erie. 

 The predominance of energy components in deep water is such as to produce 

 a slight predominance in westward littoral transport. However, due to 

 the resistant cliffs adjacent to the study area and protective measures, 

 little material is available to the beaches. The mean level of Lake Erie 

 is about 2 feet above low water datum and the highest monthly mean stage 

 is 4.2 feet. 



The District Engineer developed a plan for restoring a protective and 

 recreational beach along the park frontage. He concluded, and the Division 

 Engineer and Beach Erosion Board concurred, that the most practicable plan 

 of improvement consists of placement of sand fill, and construction of two 

 groins. The District Engineer made an economic analysis of that plan of 

 protection. 



The District and Division Engineers and the Beach Erosion Board 

 concluded that the plan of protection and improvement is economically 

 justified. They found that the shore is publicly owned and that, based 

 on the provisions of Public Law 826, 84th Congress, public benefits justify 

 Federal aid of one-third of the first costs. Accordingly, they recommended 

 adoption of a Federal project to provide for Federal participation, subject 

 to certain conditions, to the extent of one-third of the first costs of pro- 

 tecting about 800 feet of the park shore by widening the beach to a minimum 

 berm width of 40 feet at an elevation of 8 feet above low water datum, and 

 construction of two groins. The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views 

 and recommendations of the Beach Erosion Board. 



STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



The purpose of the investigation was to develop plans for restoration 

 and stabilization of adequate recreational and protective beaches, and for 

 protection of bluffs, headlands and coastal roads, also to review the 

 existing Federal project for Hampton Beach. The study area comprised the 

 entire ocean shore of New Hampshire between the entrance to Portsmouth 

 Harbor and the Massachusetts State line. It included the shores of the 

 Towns of New Castle, Rye, North Hampton, Hampton and Seabrook, a total shore 

 frontage of about 18 miles. The shore area is developed principally for 

 summer recreational use. In 1957 the permanent population of the coastal 

 towns was about 11,200. The summer population of these towns is about 

 60,000, but over weekends increases to nearly 100,000. The coastal State 

 highway closely follows the irregular shore and much of the shore frontage 



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