Coastal Environments provides coastal engineering services necessary to design coastal structures. We conduct feasibility studies for siting harbors and other coastal structures, including jetties and breakwaters. Comprehensive studies involving both lagoon circulation and inlet design have been successfully conducted. These lagoon and harbor projects also require an understanding of sediment transport over the continental shelf and nearshore. Numerical modeling techniques are often used in our feasibility studies. For example, Coastal Environments conducted a preliminary feasibility study for siting and configuring a major cruise ship complex, recreational boating harbor, luxury hotel, and residential area near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This project included determining the coastal and oceanographic conditions important for final design of the harbor, structure and dredging requirements, and preliminary cost analysis. The harbor project required diverting the lower reaches of the Rio Ameca River bed and river mouth. Coastal Environments provided engineeing support for the river diversion and stabilization design. |