to public highways considered by the Chief of fiigineers sufficiently 

 important to justify protection, and authorizes Federal contribution 

 toward the repair and protection of such walls at not to exceed one- 

 third of the original cost of such wall, Winthrop Shore Drive is a 

 local public highway which can be by-passed readily and therefore 

 the Baard concluded that this highway is not sufficiently important 

 to justify construction of works solely for its protection. 



The plan of protection and improvement proposed by the Baard 

 provides for extension of reconstruction of the existing sea wall 

 for a length of 4.OO feet, raising the height of the existing sea wall 

 2 to 3 feet for a length of 1,800 feet, protection of the reconstruct- 

 ed wall and adjacent sections by placement of riprap as required 

 maintenance, construction of 8 stone groins with an aggregate length 

 of 3,4-00 feet, and placement of 200,000 cubic yards of sand fill, 

 all at an estimated first cost of $648,000 with an estimated annual 

 maintenance cost of $15,000 o 



The Board recommended that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

 adopt the above plan. It further recommended that Congress authorize 

 Federal participation in the said plan by the contribution of 

 Federal funds in an amount equal to one third of the cost of the 

 plan, subject to the condition that Federal participation will not 

 relieve the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the following respon- 

 sibilities: (1) maintenance and repair during the useful life of the 

 works as may be required to serve the intended purpose, (2) provision 

 of all necessary lands, easements, and rights-of-way, (3) claims for 

 damages either before, during, or after prosecution of the worko 



STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA 



The investigation covered the shore line of the State of North 

 Carolina with particular reference to four detached portions as 

 follows: 



a„ From Paul Gamiels Hill Coast Guard Station, about 

 4. miles northerly of Kitty Hawk Beach downcoast 

 to New Inlet, about 34 miles; 



bo Atlantic Beach for about 4- miles west from Fort 

 Macon Point at the west side of feaufort Inlet; 



Co Wrightsville Beach, including Moore and Masonboro 

 Inlets, about 3 miles; and 



do Carolina ;feach and the beach in front of Fort 

 Fisher, about 7 miles « 



Except for the shore from Carolina Beach to Fort Fisher, which lies 

 on the mainland peninsula separating Cape Fear River from Atlantic 

 Ocean, all the areas studied lie on relatively narrow barrier beaches. 

 These barriers are separated from the mainland by tidal sounds inter- 

 connected by a navigation channel maintained as an integral part of 



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