PREFACE 
This report provides coastal engineers with a study of the effect of a 
moderately severe northeast storm on Atlantic coast beaches from Cape Cod, 
Massachusetts, to Cape May, New Jersey, 17 December 1970. This report is 
also the source for most of the data in Table 4-5 of the Shore Protection 
Manual (U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research 
Center, 1975). The work was carried out under the Beach Evaluation Pro- 
gram (BEP) of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 
The report was prepared by Allan E. DeWall, Patricia C. Pritchett, and 
Cyril J. Galvin, Jr., respectively, Geologist, Oceanographer, and Chief, 
Coastal Processes Branch, CERC, under the general supervision of R.P. 
Savage, Chief, Research Division, CERC. 
The authors acknowledge the contributions of the following individuals 
and organizations: Beach profile surveys and other data from the U.S. 
Army Engineer Division, New England, and U.S. Army Engineer Districts, 
New York and Philadelphia; pipe profile and visual wave observations made 
by volunteer observers: Neil Ackerson, Dennis Galvin, Larry McCormick, 
Mitchell Granat, Peter Kief, Joseph Lawless, Charles McDonnell, Bill 
Stafford, Larry Tillman, John Wilk, and Howard Wright. Profile data reduc- 
tion and analysis were provided by the following CERC personnel: Dr. Craig 
Everts, Linda Mintz, Ralf Kohler, David Mowrey, William Seelig, Leon Tenney, 
Barry Sims, and John Buchanan. Poststorm inspections were conducted with 
the assistance of Edward Thompson, Ray Bodine, Marc Koenig, and Gilbert 
Nersesian. 
Comments on this publication are invited. 
Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th 
Congress, approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 
Congress, approved 7 November 1963. 
OHN H. COUSINS 
Colonel, Corps of Engineers 
Commander and Director 
