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MR 77-9 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO. 



3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER 



4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 



THE HISTORY OF THE BEACH EROSION BOARD, 

 U.S. ARMY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS, 1930-63 



5. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfa; 



Mary-Louise Quinn 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfs) 



DACW72-74-C-001I 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



V University of California*-^ 

 Berkeley, California 94720 



WO6000 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERVY) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



August 1977 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



.181 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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Beach Erosion Board 

 Civil works 

 Coastal engineering 



Corps of Engineers 

 Washington, D.C. 



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This report provides an accurate record of the 33-year history of the Beach Erosion Board 

 (BEB), predecessor of the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). The report discusses the 

 events which led to the creation of the BEB, and the significant effects these events had upon the 

 BEB's course of direction. Also included are references to the many people who contributed to the 

 formation and implementation of BEB programs and the major theoretical and technological 

 advances in coastal engineering. 



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