PART VIII: CASE STUDY OF LAKEVIEW PARK, LORAIN, OHIO 

 Background 



340. This chapter presents a case study that exercises GENESIS and the 

 skill of the modeler in a realistic way for an actual project. The project, 

 Lakeview Park, is located on the southeast shore of Lake Erie, in Lorain, Ohio 

 (Figure 37). The park lies about one-half mile west of Lorain Harbor, a 

 prominent feature along the coast that includes breakwaters extending lakeward 

 almost a mile from shore. This coast has a limited source of beach sand and 

 consists of eroding glacial till bluffs, narrow pocket beaches, and armored 

 stretches with no beach at all. Under these conditions the municipality of 

 Lorain wished to protect the existing park and provide a recreational beach. 



341. Documentation on the Lakeview Park project is substantial, but 

 wave information is lacking and had to be synthesized by the modelers through 

 use of a wave hindcast and limited gage data. The project is sufficiently 

 localized and simple to be encompassed in an illustrative case study without 

 excessive detail and demands on computer resources, yet it highlights many 

 features of GENESIS. The case study was performed for instructional purposes 

 and not for design, with expedients taken to reduce the level of effort. 



342. The project and monitoring results have been well documented. 

 Authoritative and complete information on the project design and both local 

 and regional coastal and geologic processes is contained in the General Design 

 Memorandum (GDM) for the project (US Army Engineer District (USAED) , Buffalo 

 1975). Walker, Clark, and Pope (1980) summarize the purpose and setting, 

 regional and local coastal and geologic processes, design procedure for the 

 project, and results of early monitoring. Pope and Rowen (1983) report 

 results of a 5-year monitoring program at the site, evaluating project 

 performance through calculation of sand volume and shoreline position change. 

 These studies provide considerable information on waves and water levels, 

 storms, geology, and sand transport in the region and at the project, furnish- 

 ing the necessary "coastal experience" for the case study. The information 



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