Coastal Engineering Research Center, U.S. Duke University Press, Durham, p 263ĭaly WR, Pope J (1986) Detached breakwaters for shore protection: final report. Bartonia 57:2–8Ĭarter CH, Neal WJ, Haras WS, Pilkey OH (1987) Living with the Lake Erie Shore. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īissell JK (1993) Rare plants and rare plant communities of Presque Isle. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The Presque Isle project emphasizes the need for monitoring of project success or failure by independent groups. Engineering groups have declared the project to be a great success in spite of breakwater impacts on sand flow and the preservation of Gull Point. Preservation of Gull Point, a critical natural area at the tip of the peninsula was also an important element of the original design and environmental impact statement but it has suffered severe erosion because the breakwaters blocked the point’s sand supply. ![]() This has required annual bulldozing of around 30,000 cubic yards per year to remove tombolos. On the other hand, sand was predicted to continue to flow behind the breakwaters and it has not. A US Army Corps of Engineers Project, the breakwaters have halted the minor erosion along much of the peninsula and a good swimming beach has been retained. ![]() Fifty-five breakwaters were constructed in 1992 along Presque Isle, a 7 mile-long spit extending into Lake Erie, Pennsylvania.
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