Book Description

Excerpt from The History of the Beach Erosion Board, U. S. Army, Corps of Engineers, 1930-63, Vol. 22 of 6: Miscellaneous Report No. 77-9, August 1977 Several terms used in this report, as well as the general format, require some clarification. The Beach Erosion Board is referred to as an agency throughout the text. This term is used based on the dictionary definition of the word agency and is intended to carry no legal or official connotation. The Beach Erosion Board was comprised of a seven-member Board and a supporting staff. In this report, Board is generally used where specific reference is made to the seven-man Board; Board's staff is used when referring to the staff; the full name, Beach Erosion Board, or the acronym, beb, is used when discussing the agency as a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.