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A barrier beach is a linear ridge of sand or gravel extending above high tide, built by wave action and sediment deposition seaward of the original coastline. Includes variety of depositional coastal landforms, including spits, tombolos, cuspate forelands, and barrier islands. The Barrier Embayment Strategy aims to protect and restore sediment input and transport processes to littoral drift cells where bluff erosion sustains barrier beaches that form barrier embayments, and restore the tidal flow processes found therein. These analyses are intended to serve as a durable framework, allowing us to evaluate a proposed action and its ability to restore or protect ecosystem dynamics and services in the context of a site, a sub-basin and the region, providing a powerful basis for planning and prioritization. |