A DETACHED BREAKWATER SYSTEM FOR BEACH PROTECTION
Three segmented, detached breakwaters were constructed In the fall of 1977 at Lakeview Park, Ohio, on Lake Erie, to protect a beachfill to be used for recreation and shore protection. This paper documents the design procedures which established the configuration of the breakwaters and the beachfill, and determined the need for a terminal groin. The beachfill has been monitored by aerial photography and bathymetric profiling. During the second year, a storm of near design intensity generated severe waves concurrently with high Lake levels and eroded the updrift beach; however, the initial beach configuration was partially restored by natural processes during the following summer season. The project has functioned well, with very little loss of sand from the system and without adverse impacts on the downdrift coast.