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MR 82-13 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO, 



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4. TITLE (Bnd Subtitle) 



EFFECTS OF BEACH NOURISHMENT ON THE NEARSHORE 

 ENVIRONMENT IN LAKE HURON AT LEXINGTON HARBOR 

 (MICHIGAN) 



S. TYPE OF REPORT ft PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORCa> 



Robert T. Nester 

 Thomas P. Poe 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERCs; 



PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Great Lakes Fishery Laboratory 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Ann Arbor, MI 48106 



G31533 



II. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-CE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



November 1982 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 

 56 



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Beach nourishment 

 Biological effects 



Lake Huron 



Lexington Harbor, Michigan 



20. ABSTRACT (Cajxttaua «a revarwa afflte ff i i a jL eaa a ty aad fderUIfy by block number) 



In October 1980 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted a beach nourish- 

 ment project at the Lexington (Michigan) Harbor on the southwest shore of Lake 

 Huron, a project designed to mitigate beach erosion attributable to the instal- 

 lation of the harbor. In response to a request from the Coastal Engineering 

 Research Center (CERC) , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Great Lakes Fishery 

 Laboratory conducted a Corps-funded study from June 1980 to October 1981 along a 

 8.4-kilometer segment of shoreline adjacent to the harbor to determine the effect 



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