Fouling Characteristics: The marine life which inhabits this structure 

 includes turtles, seagulls, and other birds. 



Project Analysis: The utility of this design appears limited to freshwater 



sites with modest wave conditions. Effectively, this structure is a large 

 steel log boom with a mooring system more complicated than that employed 

 by more conventional log booms. In comparing this field experience with 

 that of the New Tern Harbor log boom, it is hard to find any significant 

 advantage in the elaborate mooring system or the use of steel pipe. The 

 one possible exception may be that the steel pipe FB has a longer opera- 

 tional expense and maintenance required is quite questionable. Nonethe- 

 less, the adventurous, innovative spirit of the builder seems to be 

 rewarded by an FB that does achieve moderate success. 



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