Regional CMS Modeling: Southwest Florida Gulf Coast

Abstract

This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering technical note (CHETN) describes a regional application of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal Modeling System (CMS). This application spans three counties and over 70 miles of southwest Florida shoreline along the Gulf of Mexico. The study region is entirely within the USACE Jacksonville District (SAJ) jurisdiction and includes the coastline from Clearwater Beach in Pinellas County, FL, to Venice Beach in Sarasota County, FL (Figure 1). Active federal projects include the Pinellas County Shore Protection Project (SPP), Tampa Harbor Deeping Project, Manatee County SPP at Anna Maria Island, the City of Sarasota SPP at Lido Key, Sarasota County SPP at Venice Beach, and a number of federally authorized channels. Local projects exist as well in Longboat Key and at Siesta Key. This effort was supported by SAJ and ERDC through the USACE Regional Sediment Management (RSM) Program.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1008677

Entities

People

  • Kelly R. Legault
  • Tanya M. Beck

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Photography
  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Best Practices
  • Boundaries
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Coastal Management
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Flow
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Navigation
  • Offshore
  • Sedimentation
  • Shore Protection
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Propagation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering