This report represents an effort on part of the Wilmington District Corps of Engineers to facilitate the availability of information relating to the coastal environemnt. The Corps has many responsibilities on the coast including navigation, shore protection, hurricane protection, flood control, recreation and the permitting program. The author has concentrated his efforts herein to Georgia, yet references to North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida are frequent. It is recognized that environments conform to the boundaries of nature more so than to the boundaries of man's institutions. In this light, information relating to the Georgia coastal environment can be effectively utilized in other areas of the Atlantic Coast either by gaining regional perspective or through application of relevant principles contained in the work. It is hoped that by the collective use of this and other similar works, interested citizens, the academic community and governmental bodies can begin to achieve a common knowledge of published information relating to the coastal environment. (Author).