Federal Inlets Database

Abstract

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Coastal Inlets Research Program (CIRP) is developing a database of Federal Inlets to consolidate inlet characteristics and statistics in a conveniently accessible form and to identify information gaps. The Federal Inlets Database covers 153 inlets and entrances in the continental United States and Alaska that are Federally maintained, and it is a detailed subset of a larger database being compiled for more than 500 inlets of the United States. This paper describes the background of the Federal Inlets Database and its content. It also identifies selected research areas being pursued by the CIRP in completing and expanding the database. This paper introduces the Federal Inlets Database as a coastal engineering resource, and it requests assistance from the coastal engineering community to complete the database by providing local and unpublished knowledge of specific inlets in the United States.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA482875

Entities

People

  • Erica E. Carr
  • Nicholas C. Kraus

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • California
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Columbia River
  • Databases
  • Dredging
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Florida
  • Grain Size
  • Great Lakes
  • New England
  • New York
  • Oceanographic Engineering
  • Sedimentation
  • Statistics
  • United States

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.