COASTAL PROCESSES AT SEA BRIGHT TO OCEAN TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY 
VOLUME 1: MAIN TEXT AND APPENDIX A 
PART I: INTRODUCTION 
Scope of Work 
1. The US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (CEWES), Coastal 
Engineering Research Center (CERC) was requested to provide technical assis- 
tance to the US Army Engineer District, New York (CENAN), in an engineering 
study of coastal processes along the Atlantic Coast from Sea Bright to Ocean 
Township, New Jersey. The study was funded by a series of four DA Form 2544 
"Intra-Army Orders for Reimbursable Services" dated 21 February 1985, 22 March 
1985, 2 January 1986, and 4 June 1986. 
2. The purpose of the study is to provide predictive tools and inter- 
pret data to assist in evaluation and implementation of CENAN's comprehensive 
shore protection plan for this highly utilized stretch of coastline. Stage- 
frequency relationships for the study site are also generated for the back-bay 
and ocean coast. 
3. A preliminary shore protection plan is contained in the report 
"Reanalysis of the Federally Authorized Project Atlantic Coast of New Jersey 
Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet with Emphasis on Sea Bright to Monmouth Beach" 
(Corps of Engineers (CE) 1984). The 1984 report reanalyzes and describes 
modifications to shore protection plans for the north New Jersey coast that 
had been the subject of a previous but now dated comprehensive and unified 
CENAN study entitled "Atlantic Coast of New Jersey, Sandy Hook to Barnegat 
Inlet, Beach Erosion Control Report on Cooperative Study (Survey)" (CE 1954). 
4. Technical portions of the present study were accomplished as four 
interconnected tasks. The individual tasks are: 
a. Wave refraction analysis. 
b. Numerical modeling of long-term shoreline change. 
¢c. Numerical modeling of storm-induced beach erosion. 
d. Development of stage-frequency relationships. 
The main results and narrative for these four tasks are presented in this 
