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Wave Action and Breakwater Location, Oswego Harbor, New York: Model Investigation
A hydraulic model investigation was performed of the harbor at Oswego, New York, to determine whether the proposed general plan of harbor improvement was adequate to protect the harbor from wave action, and if it were not, to devise a plan which would afford sufficient protection at minimum cost. The study was conducted using a concrete model geometrically similar to its prototype with a linear scale of 1:100. It was concluded from the results of the model study that: (1) the originally proposed breakwater plan would not be adequate to protect the harbor from wave action; (2) a breakwater plan developed during the model study, very similar to the originally proposed plan except for slight differences in length and alignment, would be satisfactory; (3) an artificial spending beach should be constructed at the southeast corner of the New York State Barge Canal Terminal; (4) an alternate breakwater plan developed during the model study would afford more effective protection from wave action than any of the other plans, but the cost of constructing this plan might be prohibitive; and (5) the existing impervious, vertical-walled wharfs in Oswego Harbor magnify the action of waves which gain entrance into the harbor through the navigation opening, making it desirable to avoid the construction of additional wharfs or other harbor structures of this type, unless the structures are to be located in harbor areas amply protected from wave action.
Wave Action and Breakwater Location, Oswego Harbor, New York: Model Investigation
A hydraulic model investigation was performed of the harbor at Oswego, New York, to determine whether the proposed general plan of harbor improvement was adequate to protect the harbor from wave action, and if it were not, to devise a plan which would afford sufficient protection at minimum cost. The study was conducted using a concrete model geometrically similar to its prototype with a linear scale of 1:100. It was concluded from the results of the model study that: (1) the originally proposed breakwater plan would not be adequate to protect the harbor from wave action; (2) a breakwater plan developed during the model study, very similar to the originally proposed plan except for slight differences in length and alignment, would be satisfactory; (3) an artificial spending beach should be constructed at the southeast corner of the New York State Barge Canal Terminal; (4) an alternate breakwater plan developed during the model study would afford more effective protection from wave action than any of the other plans, but the cost of constructing this plan might be prohibitive; and (5) the existing impervious, vertical-walled wharfs in Oswego Harbor magnify the action of waves which gain entrance into the harbor through the navigation opening, making it desirable to avoid the construction of additional wharfs or other harbor structures of this type, unless the structures are to be located in harbor areas amply protected from wave action.
Wave Action and Breakwater Location, Oswego Harbor, New York: Model Investigation
1949
55 pages
Report
No indication
English
Wave action and breakwater location Oswego Harbor, New York
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