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Date April 1, 2014

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William Dixon, Eric Doyle, Frank
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Subject Mantoloking I Brick Steel Sheet

Revetment, End Effect Treatment

End effects of linear shore protection structures are a common concem in design. This concern
is associated with any structure that can experience both cross-shore wave impact combined
with 1ongshore transport; or can create direct wave reflection into adjacent properties.
In the ideal case it is desired to either (I) extend any shoreline protective structure to a point
where the existing shoreline is stable and an erosion issue does not exist; or (2) connect to an
existing hard structure to tenninate the new structure. In the case of the Mantoloking/Brick Steel
Sheet Pile Wall, neither of these conditions exist therefore the wall design itself needed to
establish the conditions desired in scenario ( l) above.

In general approach to the project, the wall is designed as a resiliency feature for a planned
USACE beach till and dune system and 50 year maintenance program slated for late fall 2014
installation. This project final construction design, now available (Station 3 72), will place the
wall 440 feet west of the proposed mean sea level line at initial placement conditions and 247
feet west of the mean sea level line at minimum design conditions prior to renourishment.
Utilizing historical erosion rates for the area would mean that if the USACE project was
discontinued and left at its minimum design condition there is a projected retreat period of well
over 100 years before the mean sea level line would approach the base of the wall.
However, recognizing that there are no certainties in both the project maintenance period and
the continuation of the long tenn erosion trend historically cataloged for this section of New
Jersey shoreline. It was clearly established in the sea wall design criteria approach that the sea
wall would not be installed as a stand-alone project but an interim final line of defense should
the beach fill and maintenance program get disrupted by a series of catastrophic storms with
insufficient response time to renourish the beach and reconstruct the proposed dune system to
design conditions. Accordingly temporary intermittent issues and conditions such as potential
toe scour were addressed by over-design of sheeting toe-in depth and inst.alHng 1O' long
perpendicular returns to the east of the sheet pile wall at 400' spacing with a top elevation of 5.0
NAVD88 controlling potential scour to that elevation, by deflecting any long shore current
development along the base of the wall east to the ocean, which also controls the potential
projected maximum scarp elevation to the down drift properties at this elevation.
Wave reflection and wave impact is also controlled at the face of the wall by utilizing one of the
maximum sheet pile horizontal dimensional profiles available, with a full 1 8' deep pocketed

"W' or double "Z" pattern, creating a surface which discourage immediate energy release as the
wave is reflected as it comes into the face of the wall and impacts the approximate 60 angled
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horizontal contour of the wall face. This heavy dimensional profile also discourages long shore
currents from forming along the face of the wall between returns.
In order to create the non-impact end condition at the south end of the wall, the wall is dropped
incrementally at 1-foot intervals from the peak crest elevation of 15.0 NA VD88 to elevation 6.0

NAVD88 over a distance of 4 46 LF stretching across 9 individual properties. The incremental

elevation drop of 1 foot is made at the properties line of these 9 properties so that each owner
will have a consistent condition across the face of his property. Since the end scour effect is
created by the wall not allowing erosion to continue past the limit of the wall (in tbis case west
of the wall) by incrementally dropping the wall height, sand behind the wall will erode into the
potential scour area and eliminate same by widening the cross-sectional area for the experienced
current flow, thereby decreasing current velocity and dropping sand out of suspension along this
transition area and also introducing additional sand into the system from the dune system
storage area behind the wall the minimum storage volume in the dune system behind the wall is

27 cys of sand in the landward slope of the system from the design crest elevation 22.0
NAVD88 to elevation6.0 NA VD88, but the storage volume is significantly greater than that in
this area. The USACE has projected the landward surface elevation of the barrier island to
stabilize at elevation 8.5 NA VD88 if a storm of sufficient magnitude is experienced that will
remove its project and uses this elevation as a default elevation to plan for reconstruction. This
elevation is 2.5 above the terminus end control elevation of the st ee l sheet pile wall
demonstrating that the terminus end of the wall should be below grade unless the overall area is
actuaJly in a breach condition, which is the need for the wall's secondary function. FEMA and
USACE modeling has established the five (5) year re-occurring interval storm to have a still
water elevation of 5.04 NAVD88. The terminus end of the wall has a elevation of6.0 NAVD88
providing a marginal safety factor over this flood elevation. The five (5) year re-occurring
storm established erosion rate is 6.0 cys above the 5 year storm still water flood elevation, which
is well below the sand available in storage behind the wall at worst case conditions. So any
erosion occurring at the critical cut-off top elevation of the wall of 6.0 NAVD88 is easily
controllable, if experienced, and will not jeopardize the dune drift properties. Storms of
intensity greater than this level, if experienced when the beach system is in an eroded level
down to elevation 5 .0 NAVD88, will effect erosion above the wall elevation at the tenninus end,
passing over the wall without any significant influence on the wave form. The most critical
situation is on prolonged multiple storms at the five to ten year reoccurring intervaJ which could
potentially trip on the wall and provide scour on the land ward side of the wall, which is
addressed by the included anti- scour pad on the landward side of the wall.
In summary, elevation transition over a significant length and the low terminus elevation of the
wall effectively eliminates the potential for any significant wave deflection and scour at the end
of the wall. There is significantly more localized impact from a singular non-porous home
foundation of a higher elevation that would force flow to either side of the structure.

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