Change in Contact Details for the CZMU

Please note that the contact details for Coastal Zone Management Unit have changed as follows:

Main Office Number: (246) 535-5700

Office Fax Number: (246) 535-5741

The CZMU apologizes for any inconvenience this change may have caused.

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Glossary of Terms

Active Beach

The portion of the littoral system that is frequently (daily or at least seasonally) subject to transport by wind, waves, and currents.

Wind Rose

Diagram showing the long-term distribution of wind speed and direction.

Seagrass

Members of marine seed plants that grow chiefly on sand or sand-mud bottom. They are most abundant in water less than 9m deep. The common types are: Eel grass (Zostera), Turtle grass (Thallasia), and Mantee grass (Syringodium).

Overwash

Transport of the sediment landward of the active beach by coastal flooding during a tsunami, hurricane, or other event with extreme waves.

The part of the uprush that runs over the crest of a berm of a structure and does not flow directly back to the ocean or lake.

The effects of waves overtopping a coastal defence, often carrying sediment landwards which is then lost to the beach system.

Soil Classification (Size)

An arbitrary division of a continuous scale of grain sizes such that each scale unit or grade may serve as a convenient class interval for conducting the analysis or for expressing the results of an analysis.

Berm Breakwater

Rubble mound structure with horizontal berm of armor stones at about sea level, which is allowed to be (re)shaped by the waves.

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