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(WAR) Ware

(WAR) Ware

Location: Choptank River, Talbot County, Maryland

Site Parameters

  • Land Use: Private Residential
  • Coast Type: Embayed
  • Date Installed: September 1989
  • Type: Headland Breakwaters
  • Number of Breakwaters: 3
  • Number of Bays: 3
  • Shore Direction of Face: Northeast
  • Shore Type: High Bank
  • Average Shore Height (feet): 10
  • Average Fetch (miles): 2.3
  • Distance to 6 ft Contour (feet): 450

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