Print Email Facebook Twitter Erosion on Isle of Palms due to shoal bypassing Title Erosion on Isle of Palms due to shoal bypassing Author Boersma, Floris (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Janmaat, Rens (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) van de Ven, Daan (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Veenman, Tjerk (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) van Rhede van der Kloot, Godert (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences) Contributor de Schipper, M.A. (mentor) Pearson, S.G. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Project MP273 Date 2019-01-09 Abstract At Isle of Palms there is a lot of erosion due to shoal bypassing events. Five TU Delft Hydraulic Engineering students went to the island under supervision of Coastal Science and Engineering. The main scope of the report is to create a thorough understanding of the processes that form, transform and propagate the shoals that cause catastrophic erosion and finding ways to deal with this erosion. The movement of the shoals, but also the entire ebb tidal delta has been analysed for the last 10 years in this report. It is tried to form conclusions from this dataset although some conclusions are still highly uncertain. It is seen that there is not only a episodic erosional trend with a period of around a decade, but also one with a longer period. For both of these types of erosion designs are proposed to mitigate the negative effects of these erosions. It is found that the current practice of 10 yearly nourishments is the most effective way to cope with the erosion. However some notes have to be made that further research can improve the current nourishment strategies. Subject Shoal bypassingIsle of PalmsSouth CarolinaEpisodicalErosion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6033646f-fa95-4cf1-9584-d1ff46bd4113 Coordinates 32.819412, -79.734383 Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2019 Floris Boersma, Rens Janmaat, Daan van de Ven, Tjerk Veenman, Godert van Rhede van der Kloot Files PDF Report_MDP_Group_MP273_USA.pdf 84.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6033646f-fa95-4cf1-9584-d1ff46bd4113/datastream/OBJ/view