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Morphologic Response to a New Inlet, Packery Channel, Corpus Christi, Texas.

ADA481993

Publication Date	2007
Personal Author	Williams, D. D.; Kraus, N. C.; Anderson, C. M.
Page Count	15
Abstract	In Jul 2005, Packery Channel was opened by Hurricane Emily during the second year of its construction. This inlet connects Corpus Christi Bay and Upper Laguna Madre to the Gulf of Mexico, and it is the first artificially cut inlet in Texas in 17 years. The inlet has remained open and navigable for shallow-draft recreational boats despite construction delays, and its parallel dual jetties were completed in Sep 2006. A physical process monitoring program was initiated prior to construction in 2003 to track the evolution of the channel, surrounding nearshore, and adjacent beaches. Maximum ebb current in the inlet often exceeds 1 m/s, and an ebb shoal has not yet formed. The shorelines adjacent to the jetties, as well as the seaward longshore bars, respond to seasonal changes in wind direction, hence direction of longshore sand transport. Shoreline change varies seasonally, but adjacent to the inlet the shoreline is nearly symmetrical.
Keywords	Channels(Waterways) Shores Currents Inlets(Waterways) Texas Breakwaters Seasonal variations Sediment transport Morphology Construction Symposia Packery channel Nearshore Corpus christi(Texas) Jetties
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	48G - Hydrology & Limnology 50B - Civil Engineering
Corporate Authors	Texas A and M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX.
Supplemental Notes	Presented at the Coastal Sediments Conference, held in New Orleans, LA on 13-17 May 2007. Published in the Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments Conference, p1529-1542, 2007. The original document contains color images.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Conference paper.
NTIS Issue Number	200820

Morphologic Response to a New Inlet, Packery Channel, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Morphologic Response to a New Inlet, Packery Channel, Corpus Christi, Texas.
ADA481993

Publication Date	2007
Personal Author	Williams, D. D.; Kraus, N. C.; Anderson, C. M.
Page Count	15
Abstract	In Jul 2005, Packery Channel was opened by Hurricane Emily during the second year of its construction. This inlet connects Corpus Christi Bay and Upper Laguna Madre to the Gulf of Mexico, and it is the first artificially cut inlet in Texas in 17 years. The inlet has remained open and navigable for shallow-draft recreational boats despite construction delays, and its parallel dual jetties were completed in Sep 2006. A physical process monitoring program was initiated prior to construction in 2003 to track the evolution of the channel, surrounding nearshore, and adjacent beaches. Maximum ebb current in the inlet often exceeds 1 m/s, and an ebb shoal has not yet formed. The shorelines adjacent to the jetties, as well as the seaward longshore bars, respond to seasonal changes in wind direction, hence direction of longshore sand transport. Shoreline change varies seasonally, but adjacent to the inlet the shoreline is nearly symmetrical.
Keywords	Channels(Waterways) Shores Currents Inlets(Waterways) Texas Breakwaters Seasonal variations Sediment transport Morphology Construction Symposia Packery channel Nearshore Corpus christi(Texas) Jetties
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	48G - Hydrology & Limnology 50B - Civil Engineering
Corporate Authors	Texas A and M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX.
Supplemental Notes	Presented at the Coastal Sediments Conference, held in New Orleans, LA on 13-17 May 2007. Published in the Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments Conference, p1529-1542, 2007. The original document contains color images.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Conference paper.
NTIS Issue Number	200820