the position it occupied in 1939. The District Engineer included such 

 restoration in his comprehensive plan. The short-range plan would provide 

 progressive restoration which would not be uniformly effective over the 

 problem area until the fill placed on the feeder in all three operations 

 had been distributed over that area by wave action, estimated to extend 

 over a period of 15 years. The Board recognized that, under this latter 

 plan, erosion may be experienced at some locations within the problem 

 area before material from the feeder beach reaches those locations. However, 

 the cooperating agency stated that it considered immediate shore re- 

 storation to be not essential at this time, and that, pending full re- 

 storation, it would place such fills as would be necessary to provide 

 interim protection at critical locations by independent local action. 

 Under this condition the Board believed that inclusion of immediate 

 restoration as an item of the project to be less desirable than progressive 

 restoration. The Board was of the opinion that the short-range plan 

 recommended by the Division Engineer is the most feasible plan for 

 immediate accomplishment of the primary objective of stabilizing Oak 

 Beach and the shore westerly to Jones Inlet, pending possible construction 

 of the bypassing plant proposed by the cooperating agency. The short- 

 range plan provides for dredging the inlet shoal opposite the western 

 part of Oak Beach to relieve the pressure of tidal currents against Oak 

 Beach, to provide a deposition area for littoral drift, and to obtain 

 fill material for the feeder beach and for Oak Beach. The plan anticipates 

 three dredging operations over a project life of 15 years involving a 

 total of about 6,000,000 cubic yards of material. Of this material, 

 about 500,000 cubic yards would be placed on Oak Beach in the initial 

 operation, possibly supplemented in subsequent operations. The remainder 

 of the material would be deposited on the feeder beach west of the inlet. 

 Each pipeline dredging operation would be -supplemented, if required, by 

 about two months of dredging by hopper dredge. 



The Beach Erosion Board stated its opinion that the public interest 

 associated with savings of public lands and improvements, restoration 

 and preservation of public beach areas and recreational benefits to the 

 general public is sufficient to warrant adoption of a project authorizing 

 Federal participation in the cost of restoring and stabilizing the shore 

 from Oak Beach to Jones Inlet, The share of the expense to be borne by 

 the United States should be one-third of the costs applicable to beach 

 erosion control, plus all the economically justified costs applicable 

 to navigation project maintenance, the costs being allocated between beach 

 erosion control and navigation in proportion to the estimated benefits 

 of those features. The Beach Erosion Board recommended adoption by the 

 United States of a project to restore and protect the shore from Oak 

 Beach to Jones Inlet, substantially as recommended by the Division Bigineer, 

 with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Chief of 

 Engineers may be advisable. Federal participation was recommended by 

 the contribution of Federal funds in an amount presently estimated at 

 42 percent of the costs of the work. The Board further recommended that, 

 prior to disbursement of Federal funds for the second and third increments 

 of construction under the project, the Federal shares of the costs for 

 those increments be reevaluated, based on then current estimates of 



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