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MR 82-3 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



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«. TITLE (and Sublllle) 



BENTHIC COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO DREDGING 

 BORROW PITS, PANAMA CITY BEACH, FLORIDA 



S. TYPE OF REPORT 4 PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfu; 



Carl H. Saloman 

 Steven P. Naughton 

 John L. Taylor 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfs; 



DACW72-81-M-0198 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast 

 Fisheries Center, 3500 Delwood Beach Drive, 

 Panama City Beach, Florida 32407 



10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK 

 AREA a WORK UNIT NUMBERS 



G31266 



1t. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



March 1982 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 

 138 



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Approved for public release, distribution unlimited. 



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19. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side 11 necessary and Identify by block number) 



Beach nourishment Dredging 



Benthos Panama City Beach, Florida^ 



ZQ. ABSTRACT (VaatSmim oa r*v*rmm at^te ff rm^caaaary ami identify by block number) 



This report gives biological and physical oceanographic data from base- 

 line work, and studies of dredged and undredged sediments before and after 

 dredging (9-meter contour) for beach nourishment at Panama City Beach, Florida. 

 These studies were designed to show major short-term environmental effects of 

 offshore dredging and included analyses of hydrology, sediments, and benthos. 



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