Figure 12. Morphology of Chatham Harbor, 25 June 1993
(23 April 1994 photo mosaic) which continued throughout 1994. As of the
8 August 1994 photography (Figure 14), the attachment was a significant feature
of the south side of the inlet. What was an eroding mainland beach a few years
earlier now became a wide accretional feature. The shoreline was now an arcuate
feature that outlined the western edge of the main ebb channel as it made an
almost 90-deg turn from a north-south orientation in the lower harbor to an east-
west orientation through the ebb shoal. The north swash platform was now around
7,000 ft (2,100 m) long and filled almost the entire opening into the bay. The
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Chapter 3 Inlet Throat, Shoreline, and Channel Evolution
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