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Figure 24. Weir jetty system at Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach, Va, 

 (Sand movement at this location is predominantly south to north 

 (left to right in the photograph) . Sand moves over the low weir 

 section and is periodically pumped to nourish the recreation 

 beaches north of the north jetty) 



sand fences have been constructed to prevent flooding from the Atlantic Ocean 

 and to slow or halt shoreline retreat. The most extensive beach fill efforts 

 have taken place at Virginia Beach, where sand has been placed on the beach 

 for the last 25 years: between 1952 and 1976, over 4.5 million cu m of sand 

 were placed along 8 km of shoreline, mostly within the 5.5-km reach north of 

 Rudee Inlet (Goldsmith et al. 1977). Sand sources were (a) a stockpile at 

 Cape Henry where material dredged from Thimble Shoal Channel in the Chesapeake 

 Bay entrance was stored, (b) Lakes Rudee and Wesley and Owl Creek, (c) Lynn- 

 haven Waterway, and (d) upland borrow sources (currently from south of Rudee 

 Inlet). The net alongshore movement is about 200,000 cu m of sediment/year to 

 the north at Rudee Inlet. Bypassing is presently accomplished using the weir 

 jetty system shown in Figure 24: sand passes over the low weir crest into a 

 sheltered depositional basin from which it is periodically pumped north across 

 Rudee Inlet to the Virginia Beach problem area. 



52. In response to rapid shoreline retreat north of Cape Hatteras, the 



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