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T. REPORT NUMBER 2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 
MR 83-3 
4. TITLE (and Subtitle) ‘ 5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 
THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACT OF BEACH NOURISHMENT 
WITH DREDGED MATERIALS ON THE INTERTIDAL ZONE 
AT BOGUE BANKS, NORTH CAROLINA 
Miscellaneous Report 
6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 
8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(s) 
7. AUTHOR(a) 
Francis) J. Reilly, Jr. 
Vincent J. Bellis 
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 
Department of Biology 
East Carolina University 
Greenville, NC 27834 
CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 
Department of the Army 
Coastal Engineering Research Center 
Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 
T4. MONITORING AGENCY NAME & ADDRESS(if different from Controlling Office) 
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK 
AREA & WORK UNIT NUMBERS 
G31533 
12. REPORT DATE 
March 1983 
13. NUMBER OF PAGES 
74 
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16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of thie Report) 
Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 
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18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 
19. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side if necessary and identify by block number) 
Beach nourishment Intertidal zone Macroinvertebrate 
Bogue Banks, North Carolina Macrobenthos Meiofauna 
Ecology Macrofauna Psammolittoral 
20. ABSTRACT (Continue em reverse sid if neceasary and identify by block number) 
During the winter and spring of 1977-78 approximately 1600 meters of high- 
energy sandy ocean beach at Fort Macon State Park was nourished with sediments 
dredged from Morehead City State Port Harbor. This report is the result of 
a 20-month study of the nourished beach and a comparable unnourished beach. 
Shannon-Weaver's Species Diversity Indexes ranged from 0.00 to 0.64 on both 
beaches during the 6 months before nourishment. Generally, Shannon-Weaver 
values were higher on the nourishment beach before nourishment due to the 
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