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Coastal morphology change in response to bulkhead removal at Edgewater Beach, South Puget Sound

 
Publication number Date Published
18-06-002February 2018
VIEW NOW Coastal morphology change in response to bulkhead removal at Edgewater Beach, South Puget Sound (Number of pages: 89) (Publication Size: 8097KB)




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Author(s) Heather M. Weiner and George M. Kaminsky
Description This report describes changes in shoreline morphology resulting from the removal of ~800 feet of shoreline armoring from the base of a historic feeder bluff at Edgewater Beach in South Puget Sound near Olympia, Washington. High-resolution, 3D topographic data were collected before and after bulkhead removal using boat-based lidar coupled with ground-based GNSS beach topography and sediment grain-size analysis. The restoration increased effective beach width and large woody debris, improved spawning habitat, and enhanced the sediment budget of the drift cell.
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Keywords LiDAR, morphology change, bluff, bulkhead, beach, sediment, Puget Sound, topography, feeder bluff, bulkhead removal, Edgewater Beach, large woody debris, sediment grain size, sediment transport, shoreline restoration, nearshore habitat