Problems and Opportunities in the Design of Entrances to Ports and Harbors Proceedings of a Symposium (1981) / Chapter Skim
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The Importance of Considering Environmental Effects in the Design of Entrances to Ports and Harbors
The Importance of Considering Environmental Effects in the Design of Entrances to Ports and Harbors
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Most of the wetlands remaining outside the boundaries of Marina del Rey are the property of the Summa Corporation, a division of Signal Oil Company. Of the original 2000 acres of wetlands, 120 acres are still what we might consider well-functioning and productive {Figure 5~.
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Construction of Marina del Rey Figure 4. Ballona wetlands today.
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The major port districts are also required to draw up local coastal programs, taking into account issues of environmentally sensitive habitats, public access, and effects on nearby bousing opportunities. The effect of this legislation has been to broaden consideration of port development beyond the design of the works themselves to take some of other larger planning issues into account.
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Heavily used areas of Ballona wetlands. it, 13~ ~ 11~1 1 ~ ~' 81 I__ ==~_ __ I__ ___ At= ' '' ' : ~3 Figure 7.
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Figure 9 shows Folly Beacb, South Carolina, one of a dozen barrier islands in the Carolina low country along the waterfront of Charleston County. It is the second island south of the entrance channel to Charleston Harbor, six miles away.
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Public beach on barrier island, Figure 10. Folly Beach, South Carolina.
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A meeting was convened with an environmental mediator in which an agreement was reached between the towns and county, the Isask Walton League, and local fishermen to designate representatives for an advisory council to work with the Corps. The concept of environmental mediation is a relatively new one borrowed from labor arbitration.
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White Oak River estuary and surrounding area, North Carolina.
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Winyah Bay supports Georgetown, which is a small maritime community of about 40,000 people, shown in Figure 14. Winyab Bay has been subject to shoaling problems as long as records have been kept.
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Yawkey Wildlife Center.
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The Yawkey Wildlife Center manages approximately 3000 acres of land impounded for the propagation of waterfowl in this area (Figure 19~. The Corps of Engineers has taken a close look at all proposals, and has tried to work with national environmental groups to bring comprehensive planning to bear on the decisions to be made for Winyah Bay.
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MC CREARY: Most of our work does happen to be in the local case study area, but we always take the study or the project with the idea in mind that we are creating some sort of a model for a broader approach that can inform other areas and national policy. One of our biggest complaints is that we have a Coastal Zone Management Act that was enacted in 1972, yet it really does not deal very comprehensively at all with estuaries and wetlands.
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MC CREARY: Many state agencies try to do industrial siting on a state or regional level, and the same approach might be appropriate for harbor and port siting. The approach is usually to go through an analysis of constraints and then select from among the areas that pass through all the screens.
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