This project was begun in 1988 when NCDOT construction permitting at Oregon Inlet required the installation of a terminal groin and revetment. This is and will be a continuing applied research project authorized annually with a budget approximately equal to $80K. The principal investigators are Dr. Margery Overton and Dr. John Fisher.
The project involves continued shoreline monitoring of six miles of shoreline using Orthogonal Grid Mapping System developed (OGMS) by Dr. Robert Dolan (University of Virginia) in order to assess the effectiveness of the terminal groin and revetment installed to control erosion. Data is analyzed and used to prepare a ""historic rate of erosion"" for the shoreline in conjunction with a Department of the Interior representative.
This project consists of three primary tasks. They are:the establishment of a comprehensive monitoring program along a six mile section of North Carolina's coast to determine the effectiveness of the terminal groin and revetment with respect to shoreline erosion rates at Oregon Inlet;the analysis of the data from the monitoring program; andthe preparation of existing data to determine a ""historical rate of erosion"" for the study area shoreline in conjunction with the Department of Interior representative.
