CONTENTS 



Page 



CONVERSION FACTORS, U.S. CUSTOMARY TO METRIC (SI) 7 



I INTRODUCTION 9 



II STUDY AREA 9 



1 . Location 9 



2. Civil Works History 10 



3. Beach Material 15 



4. Wind, Wave, and Tide Data 17 



III DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS 23 



1. Establishment of Profile Lines 23 



2. Frequency of Surveys 27 



3. Field Survey Technique 28 



4. Accuracy of Field Surveys 29 



5. Data Reduction and Quality Control 30 



6. Data Analysis 30 



IV RESULTS 31 



1. Short-Term Changes 31 



2. Long-Term Changes 45 



V DISCUSSION 48 



1. Profile Changes 48 



2. Seasonal Changes and Wave Climate 50 



3. Coastal Engineering Implications 51 



VI SUMMARY 52 



LITERATURE CITED 54 



APPENDIX 



A PROFILE LINE DOCUMENTATION 57 



B PROFILE LINE SURVEY DATA 65 



C STORM CHANGE PLOTS - PROFILE COMPARISON FOR SURVEY OF SEVEN 



PROFILE LINES AT ATLANTIC CITY 118 



D MSL SHORELINE CHANGES.... 128 



E ABOVE MSL UNIT VOLUME CHANGES 133 



F PROFILE ENVELOPES 138 



TABLES 



1 Structures along Absecon Inlet and the coast off Atlantic City 13 



2 Height of storm tides at Atlantic City 24 



3 Extreme high tides at Atlantic City 24 



