IIAB/Overview/IIAB Users Guide

Inlet Impacts on Adjacent Beaches - IIAB Java Program: User's Guide

by Julie D. Rosati

PURPOSE:

This Wiki-Technical note provides a User's Guide to the IIAB Java Program, which is available for download on the CIRP website: [[1]]. For an inlet system bounded by adjacent beaches, the IIAB Program uses methods outlined in the Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM) Part V-6 to estimate the alongshore extent of inlet impact based on the volume captured by the inlet. The user can load shoreline position, ebb and flood shoal volume (or volume change), and Operation & Maintenance (O&M) dredging volumes (or volume change) data to view plots and results.

CITATION:

 Rosati, J.D., and Sumner, C.A. 2012. "Inlet Impacts on Adjacent Beaches - IIAB Java Program User's Guide," Wiki-TN-12-1, Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Army Engineer Research 
 and Development Center.

INTRODUCTION:

Section 111 of the 1968 Rivers and Harbors Act, Public Law 90-483, as amended, gives the Federal government the authority to study, plan, and prevent or mitigate damages to shores caused by navigation projects: