Sargent Beach Lessons Learned: Difference between revisions

From CIRPwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with " == Introduction and Study Overview == [[Image:GenCade1.png‎|thumb|Fig. 1. Study area map of Point Lookout, Long Beach Island, New York.|250px|Fig. 1. Study area map of Poin...")
 
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
== Introduction and Study Overview ==
== Introduction and Study Overview ==


The Port of Bay City, Texas, asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop potential structural solutions to reduce erosion of critical beach baitat and to increase protection from tropical storms in Matagorda County. The two primary areas of concern are Sargent Beach and a 2-3 mile stretch of beach on Matagorda Peninsula located about a mile east of the Mouth of the Colorado River (MCR). This two-part study investigated the coastal processes of the region and introducted several structural alternatives to reduce erosion. Phase 1 of the study investigated the coastal processes and determined which structural solutions would be evaluated further in Phase 2.


[[Image:GenCade1.png‎|thumb|Fig. 1. Study area map of Point Lookout, Long Beach Island, New York.|250px|Fig. 1. Study area map of Point Lookout, Long Beach Island, New York.]]
This study was presented in a series of technical reports. http://cirp.usace.army.mil/Downloads/PDF/CHL-TR-12-11.pdf
 
[[Image:fig1_def_Gen.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Figure 1. Define GenCade model executable]]
The U.S. Army Engineer District, New York, requested the Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) and the Regional Sediment Management Program (RSMP) apply the shoreline change model, GenCade to Point Lookout Beach, located to the west of Jones Inlet on the south shore of Long Island, NY (Figure 1), as part of the Long Beach Island Storm Damage Reduction Project. GenCade is a new model that combines two numerical shoreline change models, the engineering detail of GENESIS (Hanson and Kraus 1989) and the long
<br style="clear:both" />
-
term, regional transport processes of Cascade (Connell et al. 2007). GenCade was developed by the CIRP and the Regional Sediment Management Program. It is applied here to Point Lookout Beach to evaluate new alternatives involving local structures in the framework of a large
-
scale sediment management plan that includes the inlet and adjacent beaches.
 
[[Image:GenCade2.png||thumb|250px|Fig. 2. GenCade grid domain from east to west covers Jones Beach, Point Lookout Beach, Lido Beach, and part of Long Beach.]]

Revision as of 16:26, 1 August 2013

Introduction and Study Overview

The Port of Bay City, Texas, asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to develop potential structural solutions to reduce erosion of critical beach baitat and to increase protection from tropical storms in Matagorda County. The two primary areas of concern are Sargent Beach and a 2-3 mile stretch of beach on Matagorda Peninsula located about a mile east of the Mouth of the Colorado River (MCR). This two-part study investigated the coastal processes of the region and introducted several structural alternatives to reduce erosion. Phase 1 of the study investigated the coastal processes and determined which structural solutions would be evaluated further in Phase 2.

This study was presented in a series of technical reports. http://cirp.usace.army.mil/Downloads/PDF/CHL-TR-12-11.pdf

Figure 1. Define GenCade model executable


Retrieved from "https://cirpwiki.info/index.php?title=Sargent_Beach_Lessons_Learned&oldid=9982"