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This appendix describes the Federal navigation project at Canaveral Harbor, Florida, and the 

 Federal shore -protection project for Brevard County, Florida. Many surveys have been made by 

 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (US ACE) for the purposes of study, construction, and 

 monitoring of these two projects. These survey data sets have not been accessed in previous 

 studies of Harbor impacts on the adjacent shores of Brevard County. The USACE survey data 

 are analyzed and the results presented in this appendix. 



F.1. Canaveral Harbor, Florida, Navigation Project 



The River and Harbor Act of March 2, 1945 (Public Law 79-14), authorized a 27-ft-deep 

 entrance channel, jetties, a 27-ft-deep turning basin enclosed by a dike, and an 8-ft-deep barge 

 canal lock. The project is described in House Document 367, 77 ( Congress, 1 st Session, dated 

 October 14, 1941. A location map with project features is shown in Figure F-l. 



Harbor Construction . The work began in June 1950. During the first full year of dredging, 

 almost 6 Mcy were moved from the turning basin and the barge and slip canals. The dredged 

 material was constructed into a dike around the turning basin and the Merritt Island causeway. 

 The pilot cut was made in October 1951. The entrance channel was about 90 % complete in 

 March 1952 when dredging was suspended from lack of progress because of rapid shoaling of 

 the channel. To stabilize the land points and reduce shoaling, construction of jetties and bank 

 revetments were undertaken on an emergency basis in June 1953. A section of the south jetty 

 about 8 1 3 ft in length and 445 ft of bank revetment (along the south bank of the land cut 

 beginning at the shore end of the jetty) was constructed between June 2, 1953, and November 10, 

 1953. The revetment was added because erosion was occurring at the south shore adjacent to the 

 channel. Between December 1953 and June 1954, the north jetty was constructed 1,150 ft long 

 to the 12-ft contour, and a 300-ft-long revetment was placed along the north shore extending 

 south from the landward end of the north jetty. By September 3, 1954, a 300-ft extension to the 

 south jetty was constructed, and the south-shore revetment was extended landward an additional 

 1,200 ft. 



The ocean entrance channel and turning basin were enlarged and deepened with military 

 funds between November 1956 and May 1957 to 33 ft in the turning basin, 34 ft in the entrance 

 channel through the land cut, and 36 ft in the approach channel. In 1958, the north revetment 

 was extended 600 ft westward, and the south revetment was extended westward to the Port 

 Authority wharf. In 1961, the channel was further deepened to 37 ft with military funds. 



This appendix was prepared by Mr. David V. Schmidt, P.E., Supervisory Civil Engineer, USACE Jacksonville District, 

 Jacksonville, Florida. 



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