PREFACE 



This report is published to provide coastal engineers with improved 

 planning and design information on the hydraulic characteristics, stability, 

 and effect on the longshore transport regime and adjacent beaches of the upper 

 Texas coast inlet-bay systems. The work was in response to the needs of the 

 U.S. Army Engineer District, Galveston, which is currently conducting the 

 Galveston County Shoreline Erosion Study, and was carried out under the 

 coastal processes program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center 

 (CERC). 



The report was prepared by Curtis Mason, Chief, Field Research Facility 

 Group, under the general supervision of R.P. Savage, Chief, Research Division, 

 CERC. The author appreciates the assistance of J.M. Hemsley for his extensive 

 efforts in preparing the report for publication. The advice and encouragement 

 of Dr. J.R. Weggel, Chief, Evaluation Branch, Engineering Development 

 Division, CERC, are greatly appreciated. 



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. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



