Scope and Contents Contains information on coastal projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Includes names of projects, location, purpose, principal features, status, dates and cost information, maps, and color slides. Materials were collected for use of Shoreline Erosion Advisory Panel (SEAP), whose deliberations resulted in Low cost shore protection, a report on the Shoreline Erosion Control Demonstration Program (Section 54 Program) published in 1981 by the Office, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps...

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Copy of Chart 5532 (29th ed., 1963) annotated by J. W. Johnson to show refraction of waves approaching over the San Francisco Bar and into the Bay; diffraction from Ft. Point to Aquatic Park.

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Materials compiled by J. W. Johnson for study of low dams constructed in arroyos, primarily to act as barriers behind which sediment would deposit. Johnson used a barrier in Norcross Wash near the Navajo Experiment Station in northern New Mexico as a case study. Includes notes, correspondence, memoranda, reprints, maps, graphs, runoff records, references, and photographs.

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Presents the findings of an investigation on the shoaling of the dredged basin at the iron ore terminal located in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Prepared for Utah International, Inc., San Francisco. Includes tables of data on waves for the coast of Peru.

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File of statements, news clippings, notes, and correspondence compiled by J. W. Johnson regarding the trial (United States of America, plaintiff, vs. 100 acres of land, more or less, in Marin County; Drake's Beach Estates, Inc., a corporation, et al., defendants, Civil no. 41861) to condemn Spit land (Drakes Bay) for inclusion in Point Reyes National Seashore.

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Includes reports, memoranda, correspondence, graphs, photographs, etc., documenting suspended sediment studies for western U.S. rivers.