Water Use Management in the North Slope Arctic Coastal Plain (
On the North Slope, water is dependent on accessibility as well as availability. Lakes which to do not freeze to the bottom, may support fish populations. To protect this resource, lakes...
Marina Planning with Geographic Information Systems
Water dependent coastal land uses including recreational boating facilities are being displaces by water enhanced uses. Coastal policy decisions designed to address these trends suffer...
Appraisal of Resources in the Saudi Arabian Gulf
The Kingdom's Meteorology and Environmental Protection Administration (MEPA) has commissioned a major study of the natural resources, as well as an appraisal of coastal zone...
Managing Growth in Florida: Focus on the Coast
Management of the Florida's phenomenal growth and protection of the coasts became an issue of major public concern in Florida in the mid-1980s. The legislative response to...
Beach Management Planning and Implementation?Collier County, Florida
An essential first step in any management program is the collection of resource information and the compilation of a data base upon which subsequent management decisions can be made. Early...
Local Government Involvement in Coastal Projects
Presented in this paper is a review of the four pronged approach to coastal management utilized by the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, Louisiana. The management program includes...
Shoreline Protection of the East Frisian Islands of Norderney and Langeoog
The seven East Frisian Islands protect as a natural barrier chain a part of the German coastline. In order to protect the health and bathing resorts against erosion, people constructed...
Shoreline Erosion Protection and Beach Nourishment
More than 40 percent of our national shoreline, excluding Alaska, is undergoing severe erosion. Structural measures including bulkheads, seawalls, revetments, groins, offshore breakwaters,...
Beach Nourishment at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: An Overview
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the Myrtle Beach nourishment project as it proceeded from the geotechnical evaluation of potential borrow sands, to permitting and design, and...
The Management of Coastal Zone Resources in Panama
Since independence in 1903, Panama has constructed an interoceanic canal and oil pipeline, established a fishing fleet, built access roads to much of the Pacific shoreline, and developed...
Puget Sound: A Plan for Its Future
In December 1986, following public hearings on a draft plan, the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority adopted the Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan. The plan is comprehensive, with...
Decisionmaking for Dredggedg Material Management
Management of dredged material produced in coastal environments is greatly complicated by the presence of chemical contaminants in the material. The kinds and quantities of contaminants...
Application of a Management Strategy for Dredging and Disposal of Contaminated Sediments to Proposed U.S. Navy Homeport Project at East Waterway, Everett Harbor, Washington
The U. S. Navy proposed to homeport a Carrier Battle Group, and requested technical assistance from the Seattle District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, to evaluate dredging and disposal...
Survival of Seagrass Plugs: Mechanical Harvesting
During the spring of 1985 a mechanical technique for harvesting seagrasses was developed in order to salvage large quantities of seagrass materials that were to be destroyed by a 4. 2...
Coastal Dunes for Protection and Sand Resources
Massive mining of dune sand on the north coast of Puerto Rico has impaired the natural ability of the dunes to protect the coast from high waves and long-term erosion. This paper presents...
Dune Building on a Developed Coast: Lavallette, NJ
After the Federal disaster declaration due to the March, 1984 northeast storm, FEMA's Interagency Hazard Mitigation Team recommended to the Municipality that it suspend the...
Stabilization of West Coast Sand Dunes
Control of dune activity and the introduction of European beachgrass have generated far-reaching effects on the West Coast landscape. Between 1900 and 1935, a series of small sand stabilization...
Foredune Management on a Developed Shoreline: Nedonna Beach, Oregon
Nedonna Beach and Rockaway Beach are adjoining oceanfront communities with foredunes that were developed before state policies went into effect. The foredunes in these two communities...
Cause and Elimination of the Deflation Zones Along the Atlantic City (New Jersey) Shoreline
After recent construction of several large hotels and apartment buildings directly fronting the Atlantic City boardwalk, large blowouts were observed to occur during the winter season...
California's Retreating Shoreline: The State of the Problem
Approximately 86 percent of California's 1715 km of shoreline is eroding. Nearly ten percent of this oceanfront has now been armored. With present day costs of shoreline protection...
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