insufficient for these purposes. About 96 percent of the frontage is 

 publicly owned. Shark River Inlet is included in this section. Another 

 relatively small inlet, Manasquan Inlet, is the south limit of the 

 section. Both have been improved for navigation, including twin jetties. 



d. Point Pleasant Beach to Seaside Park - This section is 

 about 14 miles long, including a j-mile section in Berkeley Township 

 adjoining Seaside Park to the south. It includes 3 miles of headland 

 south to Bay Head. The remainder is in the form of barrier beach with 

 widths of 500 feet to 1 mile and elevations up to 12 feet above mean 

 sea level, except for dunes along the shore. Although farther from 

 population centers and not as intensively developed as the sections to 

 the north, the section is popular because of its better beaches. In 

 addition to communities mentioned above, the principal summer colonies 

 are Mantoloking and Lavallette, but the remainder is being steadily 

 developed for private recreational use. The shore has been more stable 

 than that to the north, and few protective measures have been undertaken. 

 However, the ividth of protective beach has recently been depleted at 



Bay Head and Lavallette, and the State has partially restored the beach 

 at Lavallette by artificial placement of sand since the November 1953 

 storm. A program is needed to provide for continued stability of the 

 shore in this section. About 25 percent of the frontage is publicly 

 owned. 



e. Island Beach - This section, nearly 10 miles in length, is 



a separate entity with direction of drift opposite to that in the remainder 

 of the study area, and hence affected onjy to a minor degree by protective 

 measures in the adjoining section. The proposal for early development 

 of the section as a State Park necessitates that the past history of shore 

 line recession be considered in planning such development. Barnegat 

 Inlet, a large inlet at the south limit of the study area, is Federally 

 improved for small boat navigation. 



Tides in the area are semi-diurnal, the mean range being 4.5 feet 

 at Sandy Hook and 4 feet at Barnegat Inlet. The spring range is about 

 5 feet. The maximum tide of record at Sandy Hook, 9.1 feet above mean 

 sea level, occurred during the storm of November 1953. The shore of 

 the study area is exposed to waves from the northeast, east and southeast. 

 The fetch to the east and southeast is unlimited, but Long Island shields 

 the area from waves from the northeast. As a result the predominant 

 direction of littoral drift is northward from a nodal region between Bay 

 Head and Barnegat. 



The District Engineer developed a plan for protecting and stabilizing 

 the shores from Sea Bright to Seaside Park. The District Engineer made 

 an economic analysis of the proposed work and found that the benefits 

 from prevention of damages, increased earning power of property, reduction 

 in maintenance costs of existing structures, and recreational benefits 

 from additional beach use would amply justify the work. The Division and 



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