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South Carolina's Annual State of the Beaches Report : March 2001
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
Abstract
The following report summarizes changes to South Carolina's beaches within the past two years. The results are based on beach profile surveys conducted in the spring and fall of 1999 and the spring of 2000, at approximately 400 monitoring stations throughout the state. Surveys start at a benchmark located landward of the primary dune or seawall, and continue down the beach face to a depth 5 feet below mean sea level, or about waist deep at low tide. The actual elevation used for the surveys, and all elevations referenced in this report, is the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29), which is approximately the same as mean sea level. The resulting profile shows a cross-section of the beach shape at the time of the survey. Multiple dates can be compared to determine what changes have occurred to the beach profile over time.
Issue Date
2001-03
Keywords
Beaches--South Carolina, Beach erosion--South Carolina, Shore protection--South Carolina, Coast changes--South Carolina
Type
Text
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