Figure 15. Morphology of Chatham Harbor, 20 May 1995, with two ebb channels
south. The flood shoal continued to widen and the ebb spits closed both the east
and west channels into the northern part of Chatham Harbor. The main channel
was now on the flood ramp in the middle of the flood shoal. Dredging through the
western edge of the flood shoal's ebb shield was required to re-establish the Tern
Island channel to the Fish Pier. This dredged channel can be seen in Figure 15 in
the process of being dredged. Several spillover lobes can be seen trying to cut
through the ebb shield to naturally re-establish a channel northward into Pleasant
Bay.
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Chapter 3 Inlet Throat, Shoreline, and Channel Evolution
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