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Breakwaters
International Inc.
The mission of Breakwaters International is to research, develop, market and construct Beachsaver Reef shoreline erosion control systems. The management of Breakwaters has over 15 years experience in developing and testing precast erosion control products including both emergent breakwaters, and submerged erosion control reefs. The company's first emergent breakwater, a relatively simple four foot high precast structure, was installed in New York in 1984 and is still functioning to protect a shore community. Since then the company has enhanced the design using the laboratories at the Universites of Delaware and the Stevens Institute of Technology to improve the stability and energy absorption functions of the reef. In 1993-1994, the State of New Jersey and four shore municipalities installed three of the latest design of submerged Beachsaver Reefs. These projects are located at the juncture of Belmar and Spring Lake, Avalon, and Cape May Point, N.J. For two years the Stevens Institute of Technology acted as an independent monitoring agent for the State of New Jersey on these projects, which have each yielded positive results in limiting shoreline erosion. Other Beachsaver Reef projects are now being developed in New Jersey and other locations worldwide. Breakwaters International was incorporated in the United States in 1989 as a spin-off from Creter Concrete Products. The original parent company, established in 1918, has precast concrete manufacturing plants in New Jersey and New York with over 70 full time employees. This company has succesfully completed major projects in the heavy construction and prefabrication industry including projects for the City of New York, the State of New York, the State of New Jersey, and multi-million dollar contracts for the United States Government. |
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Mr.
Creter is the founder/president of Breakwaters International
Inc., incorporated in 1989. The company's mission is to research, develop,
market, and construct shoreline erosion control systems. Mr. Creter has
spent over 10 years developing the Beachsaver Reef, a shoreline protection
device, through experimental projects and laboratory testing. Several U.S.
and foriegn patents have been issued to Mr. Creter. The New Jersey Pilot
Reef Project is demonstrating the reef's ability at three locations along
the Jersey shore. Mr. Creter and his staff at Breakwaters International
Inc. have been working closely with the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection and Davidson Laboratory at the Stevens Institute of Technology
where extensive tests of the erosion control device were performed at the
laboratory and in the field.
Mr. Creter also serves as President of Geo-Syn Products Inc., a full service provider of erosion control and soil stbilization products. (For more information click here to go to our GEO-SYN site) Mr. Creter is also the head of Creter Concrete Products, Inc., with manufacturing plants in New Jersey and New York. Mr. Creter graduated from Monmouth College, Long Branch, New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in Accounting, earned his CPA and was with Touche Ross for five years. He has over fifteen years experience as CEO. He has also served as mayor of Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. |
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Ms.
Garaffa is in charge of
developing the company's client base while educating the public, Federal,
State, and local representatives and environmental organizations about
the projects and products of Breakwaters International, Inc. In addition
to her marketing and sales responsibilities, she procures project funding
and permits. She joined Breakwaters after a position as Senior Environmental
Scientist at a Jersey Shore based civil engineering firm where she was
responsible for all coastal permitting for private, municipal and county
projects and coordination with State and Federal agencies. She has eight
years of expertise in freshwater and tidal wetlands ecology and regulations
and was a science educator in the environmental field previous to that.
Ms. Garaffa also serves as Customer Relations Manager of Geo-Syn Products Inc., a full service provider of erosion control and soil stbilization products. (For more information click here to go to our GEO-SYN site) Ms. Garaffa holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and Education from Cook College of Rutgers University where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985 as a George H. Cook Scholar. She has completed her first year towards a J.D. degree at the Rutgers Newark School of Law. She is a member of the International Erosion Control Association, Northeast Shore And Beach Preservation Association, and Jersey Shore Partnership. Breakwaters
International Inc. [Erosion]
[Beachsaver Reef] |