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This false color image depicts the southern end of Pawley's Island near Pawley's Inlet, where the colors on the image represent the data values — in this case, elevation. The term "false color" simply means that the image is not a photograph, and that you should use the colorbar on the image to interpret what the colors mean. Developed structures are in red at the base of the peninsula. You can make a similar image using the BeachMapper software application provided on the second volume of this CD-ROM set. For more information about the BeachMapper application, click here.
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Portable Document Format (PDF) maps have been created to show LIDAR data for South Carolina's beaches and islands. PDF maps will allow you to zoom in on the data and print the maps at better resolution. However, because of the intense density of the data, the PDF files will not draw properly from your browser. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader® software installed on your computer, you can view the maps by navigating to the pdf/islands directory on this CD-ROM and double click on a file. A directory of maps is available in the readme.txt file. Adobe Acrobat Reader software has been provided on this CD-ROM.
To learn more about PDF documents and installing the software need to view them, click here.
Pawleys Island is located in Georgetown County between Pawleys and Midway Inlets. The island has 3.5 miles of beachfront and is .5 mile wide. Groin fields were constructed in the late 1940s to counteract erosional trends and in response to various storms over the years. The southern portion of Pawleys is low-lying, with little or no sand dunes. The central portion of the island has some of the highest dunes in the state, while the northern, accretional end has a wide field of low dunes.
Hurricane Hugo took its toll on the beach and development on Pawleys Island. Areas landward of large dunes were protected from overwash. Low dunes also survived, probably because they were rapidly flooded and overtopped by the storm surge. More than 3 miles of shoreline required emergency beach nourishment following the storm. Development at the south end was severely impacted and 27 of the 29 houses located there were destroyed. A channel breached the southern spit but was consequently filled and the houses rebuilt.
Beach profile surveys are conducted in the spring and fall at approximately 400 monitoring stations throughout the State of South Carolina. Various agencies participate in the beach profile collection, including The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), Coastal Carolina University, and the College of Charleston. The results of the surveys provide a snapshot of the beach face. Over time, these surveys can be compiled to determine if and how the profile of the beach is changing. Below is a map of the stations and a sample of the profiles that can be extracted from the data. The beach profile data compiled by OCRM is provided on the second volume of this CD-ROM set.
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For more information about South Carolina beach profiles see: South
Carolina's Annual State of the Beaches Report, April 1998,
SCDHEC OCRM, 1362 McMillian Ave. Suite 400, Charleston, SC 29405.
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