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1. REPORT NUMBER 



MR 82-4 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 



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| 4. TITLE (and Subtitle) 



FIELD EXPERIENCES WITH FLOATING BREAKWATERS 

 IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES 



|7. AUTHORfs; 



Andrew V. Baird and Neil W. Ross 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERfsJ 



DACW72-80-M-0626 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Marine Resource Management , Inc . 



12 Arrow Street 



Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 



D31679 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



July 1982 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 



93 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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Boat traffic control Log boom 



Coastal structure Scrap-tire breakwater 



Fish reef Shoreline protection 



Floating breakwater Transmission coefficient 



Floating tire breakwater Wave suppression 



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In the past 10 years, the use of floating breakwaters as temporary coastal 

 structures has become increasingly widespread in the United States as an inex- 

 pensive means for suppressing waves. However, as with any new technology, 

 there have been many failures and a substantial number of imaginative, suc- 

 cessful innovations. One of the chief problems contributing to the failure 

 rate has been a lack of awareness by designers of reliable, up-to-date techni- 

 cal information. As part of a large research effort to remedy this problem, 



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