| Show U S engineers seek to save speedway studying famous daytona beach erosion engineering units of the united states government have tackled the stupendous problem of preventing the destruction of ocean speedway at ai daytona beach fla where automobile speed history has been written for more than a quarter of a century by using all apparatus available to modern science e says a united press correspondent the engineers hope to obtain sufficient data which after an indefinite period of study will reveal some method to halt tha the destructive and powerful forces of erosion that are working slowly and surely to wear away the famous speedway the field of operation covers almost 50 miles along the atlantic seaboard with daytona beach as the center samples of sand are taken at regular intervals and sent to washington for study profiles of the rugged sand dunes lining the beach are being made charts are drawn to in of sand and r rock 0 ck show how the types which make up the shore line perhaps one of the most interesting phases of the study is that deal ing with ocean current observations and movements on the ocean bot acm divers drop off into the sea at various depths with instruments to clock speed and direction of currents also they watch the effect of the moving water on the sand and rock sea floor after collecting all necessary data the governmental department at washington which handles beach arosio erosion n will construct a small scale model of the shore line being studied it will be subjected to the same water conditions as the actual beach from studying the effects it t is hoped to find some device to halt destruction primary objective behind saving the speedway is to stave off the loss of the worlds greatest automobile laboratory in recent years the beach has developed a tendency to warp that is it grows slight rolling humps over which it is im impossible to travel at more than miles an hour even that speed is dangerous it is imps impossible sible to say what sort of apparatus or construction will be the solution since the local problem is the first of its kind ever tackled |
