Wave Action and Breakwater Location, Port Washington Harbor, Wisconsin: Model Investigation
Abstract
A hydraulic model investigation of the harbor at Port Washington, Wisconsin, was performed to determine whether the proposed general plan of improvement was adequate to protect the harbor from wave action and, if it were not, to devise a plan providing sufficient protection at minimum cost. A 1:100-scale concrete model geometrically similar to its prototype was used in the investigation. It was concluded from the results of the model study that: (1) improvement plans involving installation of wave absorbers in the slips and placing of rubble along the lakeside of the north and south caisson breakwaters, in combination with the existing breakwater system, would not protect the harbor from storm-wave action; (2) either of the two small-boat basins tested would be satisfactory with respect to wave action; (3) none of the breakwater systems tested would adequately protect the outer perimeter of the expanded harbor facilities contemplated by the Wisconsin Electric Power Company; (4) the originally proposed breakwater plan would not protect the harbor from wave action; (5) a breakwater plan developed during the model study, and somewhat similar to the originally proposed plan, would be adequate to protect the harbor from storm-wave action; and (6) a rubble mound should be added on the lakeside of the existing north caisson breakwater to reduce overtopping of the structure by waves from the east to northeast directions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1951
- Accession Number
- ADA637736