Port of Miami inlet dynamics

The results showed that structural effects on crosscurrents at the entrance were effective when even length jetties were used. Non structural changes (deepening the inlet at jetty ends) further reduced the magnitude of currents. The U.S. Army Engineer District, Jacksonville (SAJ), is evaluating jetty modification plans at the entrance channel to alleviate problems with strong crosscurrents at the ocean entrance and inner harbor channels to Miami Harbor. The U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC), was requested by SAJ to conduct a tidal circulation numerical model study, to quantify the problem better, and to evaluate remedies.