WHOI-98-16 .Cil Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1930 Coastal Landform Management in Massachusetts: Proceedingsofa Workshop' held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MAUSA October 9-10, 1997 Edited 'by Tracey i. Crago and Sheri D. DeRosa August 1998 Technical'Report , I Approved for public release; distribution unlimitèd. Se li Woo Hole Sponsored by the Sea Grant Program of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Co,.sponsored by Massachusetts Coasta Zone Management, Cape Cod Commission, . and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College Program WHOI-98-16 WHOI-W-97-001 Coastal Landform Management in Massachusetts: Proceedings of a Workshop held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA USA October 9-10, 1997 by Tracey 1. Crago and Sheri D. DeRosa Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 August 1998 Techncal Report Se lf Wo Ho Sponsored by the Sea Grant Program of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and co-sponsored by Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management, Cape Cod Commission and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College Program Reproduction in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose of the United States Government. This report should be cited as Woods Hole Oceanog. Inst. Tech. Rept., WHOI-98-16 or WHOI Sea Grant Report WHOI-W-97-001. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. ~=ru- Approved for Distrbution: =ru-== .. .. ::-1TÕ i. ::_c:3:=c: :¡m- r- r;ift7Judith McDowell (J.~ =c: Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Program _ITc: -~_== c: Acknowledgments Workshop sponsors than the members of the workshop plang commttee-many of whom also served as speakers or facilitators-for their countless hours of advice and assistance plang and executig the workshop: · Tracey Crago, WHOI Sea Grant Program · Sheri DeRosa, WHOI Sea Grant Program · Julie Early, Cape Cod Commssion (presently with the Island Foundation) · Graham Giese, WHOI Sea Grant Program · Truan Henson, Massachusett Coastal Zone Management · Dale Leavitt, WHOI Sea Grant Program · Jim O'Connell, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management (presently with the Cape Cod Commission) · Judy Pederson, MI Sea Grant College Program Additional individuals who contrbuted a signficant amount of time and energy to the success of the workshop include the followig speakers: · Sandy Macfarlane, Town of Orlean Conservation Commssion · Mike Reynolds, Cape Cod National Seashore · Jay Tanski, New York Sea Grant Intitute Transcrpts were prepared by Maureen Pires, Verbati Cour Reporter, and provided to WHOI Sea Grant for editig. Tim Silva and Jack Cook, WHOI Graphic Servces Departent, proVided unterrpted audio/visual servces thoughout the workshop. Fundig for these proceedigs was provided by the sponsorig organations, includig the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program Office, Departent of Commerce, under NOAA Grant Nos. NA46RG0470 and NA86RG0075, Woods Hole Oceanographic Intitution Sea Grant Project No. M/O-2. The U.S. Governent is authoried to produce and distrbute reprits for governental puroses notwithtandig any copyrght notation that may appear hereon. 2 Table of Contents Abstract 4 Introducton 5 October 9. 1997 Welcome 7 Workshop Objectives 11 Shorelie Change: Coastal Ladform Management Dilemm. 13 Jim O'Connell, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Figues 32 Reports from Breakout Group Facitators 38 Managig Iner Shores, Sandy Macfarlane, Tow of Orleans 45 Conservation Commission Figues 51 Reports from Breakout Group Facitators 60 October 10. 1997 Welcome 70 Managig Altered Shores, Jay Tanski, New York Sea Grant 71 Figues 81 Report from Breakout Group Faciltators 83 Monitorig Changes in Sustaiabilty, Mike Reynolds, Cape Cod 91 National Seashore, and Graham Giese, WHOI Sea Grant Program Figues 98 Reports from Breakout Group Faciltators 99 Wrap-up Debate and Discussion 104 List of Posters 111 Glossary 112 List of Participants 114 3 Abstract The primary objective of ths publication is to share with a wider audience the information and ideas that were shared by those attending the first workshop on Coastal Landform Management in Massachusetts that was held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on October 9 and 10, 1997. The workshop was designed to benefit resource management decision-makers through interactive exercises and discussions of coastal problems rangig from those that arise everyday to those of unusual complexity. The immediate objective of the workshop was to improve famarty with existig maagement methodologies. The long- term objective was to improve the methodologies themselves. The workshop was divided into four sessions, each begig with a presentation followed by discussion. The discussions took place in four separate 'breakout groups"-each led by a facilitator-that looked critically at the presentation and prepared a response. The entire group then reconvened for a panel discussion led by the faciltators and the presenter. The first presentation U. O'Connell) discussed the diverse landforms of the Massachusetts coast, the processes that produce and maintain them, and the problems associated with selectig the most appropriate management technques. The second (S. Macfarlane) focused on difficuties of managig iner shores using the Nauset and Pleasant Bay estuaries as examples. The thrd U. Tanki) discussed management of altered shores using as an example Westhampton Beach on the south shore of Long Island. The fial presentation (M. Reynolds and G. Giese) concerned the monitorig of changes in coastal landform sustaiabilty and descrbed checklsts prepared to help maagers monitor such changes. 4 Introduction The fist workshop on coastal landform management in Massachusetts was held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Intitution (WHOn on two beautifu days in early October 1997. It was designed to offer practitioners an opportuty to explore the realities of coastal maagement though interactive exercises and discusion with the objective of improvig our understanding and skil at using the management tools at hand, and ultimately, improvig the tools themselves. By all accounts it was a successful effort-one that we would like to share with you by providig in ths volume a proceedigs of the workshop. The two-day period was divided into four sessions, each begig with a presentation followed by discussion. These discussions formed the heart of the workshop. They took place in four separate 'breakout groups"--ach led by a facilitator-that looked crticaly at the presentation and prepared a response. The entie group then reconvened for a larger discussion, led by a panel consistig of the facilitators and the presenter. The large group discussions were often lively, sometimes heated, and always productive. In the fist session, Jim O'Connell of Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management discussed the difficulties presented by our efforts to use coastal landform without abusing them, and the dilemm posed by our wish on one hand to protect coastal properties, and on the other hand to protect the landforms that the propertes occupy. Followig a "tour" of the diverse landform of the Massachusetts coast, Jim discussed the processes that produce and maintai them, and then moved on to the knott problem of selectg the most appropriate management techques. For the followig breakout session, Jim outled a hypothetical shorelie development proposal and chalenged the other participants to develop creative solutions to the complex problems that it raised. In her presentation, Sandy Macfarlane, Conservation Admistrator of the Town of Orlean, focued the group's attention on diffcuties of maagig iner shores. Using the Nauset and Pleasant Bay estuares as examples, she emphasized the signcance of wildle habitats with these systems. She led us though the development of a resource-based management plan for Pleasant Bay that led to the development of a semi-quantitative matrx evaluatig dock and pier sitig. Sandy concluded by presentig the matrx to the group for breakout-session discusion. Jay Tanski of the New York Sea Grant Intitute dicused the management of altered shores for the workshop's thd presentation. Providig an example of what Massachusetts may have to face someday, Jay began by providig a tour of the south shore of Long Island from Montauk Point to New York City, from residential to urban development. Then he tued to the saga of a specific communty, Westhampton Beach, that by the late 1980's-following decades of mismanagement-faced a severe theat of propert loss on a major scale. He then asked the 5 group to develop management strategies for the 1990's-only to later tell us what strategies were actually developed and how they fared. The fial presentation, a joint effort by Mike Reynolds of the Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) and Graham Giese of the WHOI Sea Grant Program, concerned the monitoring of changes in coastal landform sustaiabilty. Mie began by reviewig the relatively undistubed coastal systems with CCNS and the management chalenges that have arisen, concludig that good science and good monitorig can lead to improved decision-mag. Graham followed with a discussion of checksts prepared for the use of management decision- makers to estimate the likely effects of proposed projects on the sustaiabilty of coastal landform systems. He ended by presentig them to the group to apply in the breakout session to five selected "real-life" projects. Our priary objectve in preparig these proceedigs is to share with a wider audience the inormation and ideas that were shared by
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