Figure 14. Morphology of Chatham Harbor, 8 August 1994
Eight years and five months after the inlet breach, the inlet was approximately
8,500 ft (2,600 m) wide. The main ebb channel had migrated to the extreme south
end of the inlet and was against the South Beach shoreline in the 20 May 1995
photographs (Figure 15). A second ebb channel was beginning to form around
1,000 ft (304.8 m) north of the initial breach. The ebb shoal was divided into three
parts with a smaller north swash platform, central ebb platform, and a southern
ebb platform. The terminal lobe of the ebb channel was south of the north end of
South Beach as the shoal took on an extreme asymmetrical shape to the south. The
South Beach continued to migrate landward, but did not move further to the
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Chapter 3 Inlet Throat, Shoreline, and Channel Evolution
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