Sediment Budgets for Lake Erie & Lake Ontario

<div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>This application compares data in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie under current conditions vs with increased shore protection.</span></font></div><div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br /></span></font></div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>The Sediment Budget Analysis System (SBAS) was developed to provide a framework for formulating, documenting, and calculating sediment budgets, including estimation of uncertainty, and hence, the reliability of the budget. The SBAS is visually based and operates within the Windows operating systems.</span></font><br /><div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br /></span></font></div><div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><b>Lake Ontario:</b> </span>Budget based on 2015 levels of armoring of Lake Ontario Shore.  Recent Sediment Budget with 20% increase in Shore Protection/20% decrease in unarmored shore</font></div><div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><br /></font></div><div><font color='#222222' face='sans-serif' size='3'><span style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><b>Lake Erie: </b></span>Budget based on 1971-2011 Recession Rates of Lake Erie Shoreline. What is SBAS? Sediment budgets provide a conceptual and quantitative model of the magnitudes and pathways of sediment transport at inlets and adjacent beaches for a given timeperiod. Sediment budgets give a framework for understanding complex inlet and coastal systems and their responses to coastal engineering projects. Any convenient method, such as a spreadsheet application, can be used to formulate and calculate a sediment budget. SBAS is a convenient method for formulating regional sediment budgets for coastal regions, including inlets, because it is visually based, provides an integrated picture of the processes while archiving detailed calculations within the system, and allows variations in the sediment budget to be rapidly examined.</font></div>