PREFACE 



This report presents a method for estimating the sedimentation rate in a 

 semienclosed harbor before construction. Sedimentation is assumed to result 

 when suspended solids carried into the harbor during a rising tide or rising 

 river stage settle out before they can be removed from the harbor as the water 

 level falls. The work was carried out under the coastal engineering research 

 program of the U.S. Army Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC). 



The report was prepared by Craig H. Everts, Chief, Engineering Geology 

 Branch, under the general supervision of N.E. Parker, Chief, Engineering 

 Development Division. 



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. 



Colonel, Corps of Engineers 

 Commander and Director 



