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STATE OF YORKTOWN BEACH
November 2006
State of Yorktown Beach2006
Donna A. MilliganC. Scott Hardaway, Jr.
Kevin O’BrienChristine A. Wilcox
A report obtained under contract with York County, Virginia
Shoreline Studies ProgramVirginia Institute of Marine Science
School of Marine ScienceCollege of William & MaryGloucester Point, Virginia
November 2006
ShorelineStudies
ProgramVIMS
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
1 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.1 Site Surveying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.2 Aerial Photo Geo-Referencing and Mosaicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3 RESULTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4 CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
APPENDIX AGround photos taken in April and May 2006
APPENDIX BYorktown Beach Planform Survey Plots Spring 2006
APPENDIX CYorktown Beach Cross-Sectional Profile Plots 2003-2006
List of Figures
Figure 1. Location of Yorktown Public Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Figure 2. The survey baseline for Yorktown’s main recreational beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Figure 3. The survey baseline for the breakwaters near Yorktown Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Figure 4. Distance to MHW from the baseline between profiles 5 and 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Figure 5. Georectified 2005 aerial photos and digitized mean high water along Yorktown’s
main recreational beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Figure 6. Georectified 2005 aerial photos and digitized mean high water along Yorktown’s
entire shore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1 INTRODUCTION
The Yorktown Public Beach is located on the south side of the York River at Yorktown,Virginia (Figure 1). Recently, it has undergone dramatic transformation with the construction offloating piers, upscale restaurants and shops, parking garage, and additional shore managementstructures. The main recreational beach is now about 1,600 feet in length. A new section ofbeach and breakwaters is located upstream of the main recreational shore; this project area is1,500 ft long which includes property owned by the Waterman’s Museum. The middle sectionof the shoreline downriver of the Route 17 Coleman Bridge, where the floating piers are located,was surveyed but is not part of the analysis since little sand occurs in that area.
Historically, the beach was a product of erosion of nearby sandy upland banks and thelittoral transport system. Over the years, the beaches along the waterfront began to narrow as thenatural sediment supply was depleted by hardening of the updrift shorelines and were easilyoverwashed in storms and had continually eroded. Since 1978, various projects have taken placealong Yorktown’s shoreline in order to abate erosion, provide a recreational beach, and minimizedamage to the upland during storms. Between 1994 and 2004, seven breakwaters with beach fillwere installed along the shoreline. These structures have created a stable beach planform alongthe main recreational beach that was designed to withstand a 50-yr storm event. The shops andpiers were begun in 2004 which required modification to the structures along that section ofshore. The additional breakwaters upriver of the Coleman Bridge were constructed in early 2005as was a structure downriver of the pier at the end of Comte de Grasse Street. These structuresare shown in ground photos taken in April and May 2006 which are shown in Appendix A. Anadditional breakwater with pipes to stabilize the flow of Yorktown Creek was constructed inJune 2006.
2 METHODS
2.1 Site Surveying
Shoreline Studies personnel from VIMS began monitoring the beach at Yorktown in thespring of 1985. Through various phases of project installation, the baseline and methodolgy ofdata collection and reduction have changed. For additional information, see Milligan et al.(1996 and 2005). Beginning in 2003, new methodologies were established for surveying thebeach. The Trimble 4700 Real-Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK-GPS) wasused to set site control and acquire beach and shore data. The 4700 receiver utilizesdual-frequency, real-time technology to obtain centimeter accuracy in surveying applications. Inaddition, a Trimble 5600 Robotic Total Station was used to acquire data in the nearshore. Thecombination of these new instruments allows for a more detailed mapping of the beach andnearshore in a shorter amount of time.
One shoreline and nearshore survey was performed at Yorktown in the spring of 2006(April/May). In addition, a small section of shore (profiles 32-35) was surveyed in July 2006 tocapture the installation of the new breakwater at Yorktown Creek. The planform surveys areshown in Appendix B.
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The RTK-GPS base station benchmark was pre-set with a 2-hour occupation. These datawere processed through the National Geodetic Survey’s On-line Positioning User Service(OPUS). All the survey data were based on this benchmark. In addition, 3-minute occupationswere taken at previously- established benchmarks in order to tie newer data to the older data aswell as determine survey error. The data is presented with a horizontal datum of State PlaneVirginia South, NAD83, international feet. The vertical datum is feet mean lower low water(MLLW), geoid99, as determined from nearby benchmarks publishing both NAVD88 andMLLW for the 1983-2001 tidal epoch.
Generally, the surveys included the following elements:1. Dimensions of the project structures including breakwaters and revetments;2. Mean High Water (MHW) and MLLW; survey extends to approx. the -4 ft
MLLW contour (Tidal Epoch 1983-2001).
2.2 Aerial Photo Geo-Referencing and Mosaicking
Recent color aerial photography was acquired by Shoreline Studies Program on 1September 2005. The images were scanned as tiff files at 600 dpi. ESRI ArcMap GIS(www.esri.com) software was used to georeference the images for Yorktown. The referencemosaic, the 2002 Digital Orthophotos from the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP), isdivided into a series of orthophoto tiles and is stored in a Virginia south, state plane projection,in feet. The aerial photo tiles from VBMP for each site were mosaicked and re-projected to aUTM zone 18 North, NAD83 projection, in meters.
Rectifying requires the use of ground control points to register the aerial photography tothe reference images. Ground control points are points that mark features found in common onboth the reference images and on the aerial photographs that are being georeferenced. Controlpoints were distributed evenly to maintain an accurate registration without excessive amounts ofwarp and twist in the images. In addition, where possible, enough control points were placedwithin the area of interest, the shoreline and the breakwaters, to ensure accurate registration inthese key areas. Good examples of control points are permanent features such as manmadeobjects and stable natural landmarks. The standard in this project was to achieve a root meansquare (RMS) error under six for each aerial photo.
Georeferencing was done by using the Georeferencing Tool in ArcMap. First thereference image and the scanned aerial photograph are roughly aligned so that common pointscan be identified. Then, with the aid of the Georeferencing tool, ground control points are addeduntil the overall RMS error is less than six and the location of the aerial photograph closelymatches the location of the reference image. When an acceptable correspondence is achieved,the aerial photograph is saved as a rectified image. All the rectified images were then mosaickedusing the mosaic tool in ERDAS Imagine(http://www.gis.leica-geosystems.com/Products/Imagine/).
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3 RESULTS
Figure 2 and 3 show the baseline and cross-sectional profiles used in this analysis forboth the main recreational area and the Yorktown Creek breakwaters. The plots of each profileare shown in Appendix C. Relatively small changes occurred in the cross-sectional profilesalong the main recreational shore. On the downriver end where the construction of the newbreakwater took place, an increase in sand in the nearshore is shown by the cross-sectionalprofiles. Volume change analysis between January 2005 and May 2006 agrees. Betweenprofiles 6 and 22, the beach above MLLW gained about 530 cy, while the nearshore gainedabout 220 cy mostly in the downriver section.
Distance to MHW (defined as +2.5 ft MLLW) from the baseline is commonly plotted toshow the movement of the subaerial beach (Figure 4). In general, the position of MHWremained relatively stable between January 2005 and May 2006. Small increases riverwardoccurred along much of the beach except directly behind breakwater 5. Figure 5 shows theposition of MHW on geo-rectified aerial photos taken on 1 September 2005. As shown in theprofile analysis, MHW is relatively stable with small increases over time. Figure 5 also showsthe change in shoreline due to the construction of the downriver breakwater (number 7). Prior toit’s construction, MHW was close to the Colonial National Historical Park’s road.
Figure 6 shows the entire project area on a geo-rectified aerial photo. One of the originalseven breakwaters on the downriver section of shore is not labeled since it does not function as abreakwater because one of the floating piers goes through it. The breakwater at YorktownCreek had not been constructed at the time of the photo and is shown in it’s approximatelocation. Profiles 32-35 (Appendix B) show the impact of it’s construction on the shore. Profiles 32 and 35 lost sand in the nearshore where the Creek’s ebb tidal delta had existed priorto construction of the breakwater and piping of the Creek. Appendix A shows ground photos ofthe delta.
4 CONCLUSIONS
Yorktown’s waterfront has been enhanced with many shore protection structuresenhancing the recreational opportunities along this stretch of shore. These structures havecreated a stable environment by maintaining a protective beach. Little natural change occurredto the site between January 2005 and May 2006.
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5 REFERENCES
Milligan, D.A., C.S. Hardaway, Jr., and G.R. Thomas, 1996. Public Beach Assessment Report,Yorktown Public Beach, Yorktown, Virginia. Technical Report. Virginia Institute ofMarine Science, College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia.
Milligan, D.A., C.S. Hardaway, Jr., Linda M. Meneghini, George R. Thomas, Christine A.Wilcox, 2005. Yorktown Beach 2003-2005 with Hurricane Isabel Impacts. TechnicalReport to York County. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William &Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia.
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Figure 6. Georectified 2005 aerial photos and digitized mean high water along Yorktown’s entire shore.
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APPENDIX AGround Photos taken in April and May 2006
Looking upriver from the Yorktown pier
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Looking upriver from the Yorktown pier
Looking downriver from the Yorktown pier at the new breakwater
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Looking downriver at the revetment and floating piers
Under the Rt. 17 Coleman Bridge
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Backshore plantings in front of the Watermans Museum
Backshore plantings on the upriver section of beach
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Backshore from Breakwater 10
Yorktown Creek section of shore
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Yorktown Creek tidal delta
Yorktown Creek tidal delta
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APPENDIX BYorktown Beach Planform Survey Plots
2006
APPENDIX CYorktown Beach Cross-Sectional Profile Plots
2003-2006
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