PREFACE 



This report was prepared by the US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment 

 Station (WES), through the Monitoring Completed Coastal Projects Program, an 

 Operations and Maintenance program of the Headquarters, US Army Corps of Engi- 

 neers (HQUSACE). The HQUSACE Technical Monitor was Mr. John H. Lockhart, Jr. 



The study was conducted by personnel of the US Army Engineer District, 

 Wilmington (SAW), and WES's Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC), under 

 the general direction of Dr. J. R. Houston and Mr. C. C. Calhoun, Jr., Chief 

 and Assistant Chief, respectively, CERC; Dr. Frederick E. Camfield, Acting 

 Chief, Dr. William L. Wood, and Mr. Thomas W. Richardson, successive Chiefs of 

 the Engineering Development Division; and Dr. Dennis R. Smith, Chief of the 

 Prototype Measurement and Analysis Branch. At SAW, general direction of the 

 effort was provided by Mr. Jim Vithalane, Chief of the Engineering Division, 

 and Mr. Limberios Vallianos, Chief of the Coastal Engineering Branch. The 

 field data collection effort was planned by Mr. J. Michael Hemsley, Research 

 Hydraulic Engineer, CERC, and Mr. J. Thomas Jarrett, Project Engineer, SAW. 

 Assisting in data collection were Messrs. Michael J. Wutkowski, J. William 

 Forman, Jeffrey A. Gebert, and Ronald Fascher, all engineers at SAW. This 

 report was prepared by Messrs. Jarrett and Hemsley. 



Commander and Director of WES during the preparation and publication of 

 this report was COL Dwayne G. Lee, CE. Technical Director was Dr. Robert W. 

 Whalin. District Engineer at SAW was COL Wayne A. Hanson. 



