PREFACE 



This report provides coastal engineers the results of a study conducted by 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Great Lakes Fishery Laboratory on the effect 

 of beach nourishment activities on the nearshore aquatic environment in the 

 vicinity of Lexington Harbor. The work was carried out under the U.S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center's (CERC) Foredune Ecology work \anit. 

 Environmental Impact Program, Coastal Engineering Area of Civil Works Research 

 and Development. 



The report was prepared by Robert T. Nester and Thomas P. Poe, Research 

 Fishery Geologists, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 

 under CERC agreement No. W74RCV CERC 80-45. The authors acknowledge E.J. 

 Pullen, T.A. Edsall, D. Les, C. Mousigian, F. Koehler, W. Porak, J. French, 

 III, and R. Sayers, Jr., for their advice and assistance. 



E.J. Pullen, Chief, Coastal Ecology Branch, served as contract monitor for 

 this report, under the general supervision of Mr. R.P. Savage, Chief, Research 

 Division. 



Technical Director of CERC was Dr. Robert W. Whalin, P.E., upon pioblica- 

 tion of the report. 



Comments on this publication are invited. 



Approved for publication in accordance with Public Law 166, 79th Congress, 

 approved 31 July 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th Congress, 

 approved 7 November 1963. 



TED E. BISHOP 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 



Commander and Director 



