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Coastal Engineering
Technical Note
Analysis of the Performance of the
Prefabricated Erosion Prevention (P.E.P.) Reef System
Town of Palm Beach, Florida
by Thomas R Martin and J. Bailey Smith
INTRODUCTION
A prefabricated erosion prevention (P.E.P.) reef was installed during the summer months of
1992 and 1993, at the Town of Palm Beach in Palm Beach County, FL (Figure 1). The
ft) for AT&T CABLES
PEP REEF (4,216 FT LONG,
(INCLUDING GAP) IN WATER DEPTH
DIRECTiONAL WAVE GAUGES
A
Figure 1. Palm Beach, FL, P.E.P. reef installation
US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Coastal Engineering Research Center
3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180-6199
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