During the past fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, $19 140.92, have been expended in strengthening and repairing the jetti at Saybrook, in increasing the height of part of the Hartford training wall and in dredging to maintain the 9-foot depth. The most important part of the improvement of this river is dredgin through the bars each year immediately after the spring freshets, est mated to cost annually about $8,000. A sufficient sum will be reserve from available funds to do this work in the spring of 1888. An esti mate for completing the jetties at Saybrook and for needed shore pro tection will be submitted as soon as practicable. July 1, 1886, amount available.. Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.. July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities.. July 1, 1887, amount available $14, 113. 7 26, 250.0 40, 363. 7: $15, 064. 46 4,076. 46 19, 140.9% 21, 222.80 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix D 3.) 169,000.00 25,000.00 4. Clinton Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor lies 10 miles west of the mouth of the Connecticut River. Its channel runs for nearly a mile inside of a beach through which a breach was made about forty-five years ago, after which the channel shoaled in two places to about 4 feet deep, where the depth had been 8 feet. The project for improvement, adopted in 1882, provided for closing the breach, and, if that did not restore the channel depth, for dredging 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep at low water through the shoals. tire cost was estimated at $10,000. The en Three thousand dollars have been appropriated for this harbor, of which $2,747.37 have been expended. A riprap dike was built across the beach in 1883; it requires some repairs. The channel depth has not changed since 1882. July 1, 1886, amount available.... July 1, 1887, amount available.. Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix D 4.) $252.73 252.73 7,000.00 7,000.00 5. New Haven Harbor, Connecticut.-The original available low-water depth up to the wharves in this harbor was about 9 feet. The first project for deepening the channel provided for making it 13 feet deep, which was done in 1871; it was widened at different times until 1878, when a project was adopted for dredging a channel 16 feet deep and not less than 400 feet wide. In 1882 a project was adopted for making permanent the required depth over the Fort Hale Bar by means of a dike running out from Sandy Point with an arm 3,200 feet long parallel to the channel. Thirty-eight thousand dollars have been expended on this dike, and $46,000 are estimated as yet necessary to complete it. Up to the close of the fiscal year $261,000 have been appropriated for this barbor and $253,181 have been expended. A 16-foot channel 400 to 600 feet wide has been obtained all the way up the harbor except over the Fort Hale Bar, where the depth is 13 feet. The shore arm and 769 feet of the channel arm of the Sandy Point Dike have been built. During the past fiscal year $12,317.31 have been expended in extending the Sandy Point Dike 515 feet. The sum of $93,000 is estimated as required to complete the dike and to do the necessary dredging to make 16 feet depth on the Fort Hale Bar. July 1, 1886, amount available.... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.. July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886........ July 1, 1887, amount available Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. (See Appendix D 5.) $136.24 20,000.00 20, 136.24 12, 317.31 7,818.93 93,000.00 40, 000. 00 6. Breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut.-In 1880 a project was adopted for making a large and convenient harbor of refuge at the entrance to New Haven Harbor by the construction of two riprap breakwaters, the first to be 3,300 feet long extending northeasterly from the light-house on Southwest Ledge to Quixes Ledge, the second to be 4,200 feet long extending northwesterly from Luddington Rock. The total estimated cost was $1,311,134. No modification of the project has been made, except slight changes of cross-section, in 1880. The total amount appropriated for this work is $295,000, of which $247,022.51 have been expended. The east breakwater has been built 2,412 feet long, being nearly three-quarters of its contemplated length. The west breakwater is not begun. During the past fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, $28,438.37 have been expended, and the breakwater has been extended 265 linear feet under a contract still in progress. The east breakwater is far enough advanced to warrant beginning the westerly one and carrying both on at the same time. The officer in charge reports that $500,000 could be profitably expended on the two breakwaters during the ensuing year. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.... July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities July 1, 1887, amount available.... $1,415.86 75,000.00 76, 415, 86 $20,589.20 7,849. 17 28,438.37 47,977.49 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project ......1,016, 134.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30,1889 100, 000. 00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix D 6.) 7. Milford Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor consists of a broad ope bay, from the head of which a small tidal stream extends three-qua ters of a mile northward to the village wharves. Originally the dept on the bar at the mouth of the river was 2 feet at mean low wate Above that the channel was nearly bare in places. Under the first project of improvement adopted in 1872, a channel feet deep and 100 feet wide was excavated through the bar and thenc 40 to 60 feet wide, to the village wharves; small jetties were built t protect the east bank from erosion and two jetties were built to pre serve the channel on the bar, at a total cost of $34,600. In 1881 a prc ject was adopted for making a channel over the bar 8 feet deep and 10 feet wide, at an estimated cost of $11,000. The total sum apppropriated for this harbor is $39,600. Of thi $4,758.98 have been expended on the last project, and the channel of feet depth has been made 65 feet wide. No work was done during the past fiscal year. The officer in charge reports that the project could be satisfactorily completed in one year at the estimated cost of $6,000. July 1, 1886, amount available.... $241.0: July 1, 1887, amount available.... 241. 0: Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... 6,000.00 6,000,00 (See Appendix D 7.) 8. Housatonic River, Connecticut.-The navigable part of this river extends from Derby, Conn., to Long Island Sound, a distance of 13 miles, and was originally obstructed by several bars upon which the low-water depth was from 3 to 5 feet. In 1871 a project was adopted for making and maintaining a channel 100 feet wide and 7 feet deep at mean low water throughout this distance. Besides the necessary dredging, it contemplated building a breakwater east of the channel over the bar at the river's mouth. The amount appropriated for this river is $76,200, of which $69,224.63 have been expended. A channel of the required depth has been dredged several times through the worst bars. The present available depth over them is about 5 feet at mean low water. During the past fiscal year a channel 70 feet wide and 9 feet deep at mean low water was completed over the bar at the mouth of the river, free of cost to the United States, the contractors being allowed the dredged material for use on oyster beds; this channel has filled to about 7 feet depth at its outer end. A contract is now in progress for removal of Drew's Rock and Jetty. Up to the close of the fiscal year 160 cubic yards of the rock had been removed-about two-fifths of the whole. Revised estimates of cost of the breakwater at the mouth of the river and of necessary dredging are presented by the officer in charge, amounting to $202,000; and he reports that $100,000 of this could be profitably expended during the ensuing fiscal year. July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.... July 1, 1887, amount available.... $3,340, 82 5,000.00 8,340.82 1,365.45 6, 975. 37 (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... 25,000.00 Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 10,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix D 8.) 9. Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut.-The available depth in this harbor was originally 5 feet at mean low water. The first project for improvement provided for a jetty on the east shore to check the influx of sand and for dredging to make a channel 200 feet wide and 12 feet deep at mean low water. In 1882, after the jetty had been built and the proposed channel dredged, a project was adopted for widening to 600 feet the channel from the inner beacon to the Naugatuck Railroad Wharf to provide room for vessels driven in by bad weather without blocking the main channel. The estimated cost of the latter project was $60,000. Two hundred and thirty thousand dollars have been appropriated for this harbor, of which $35,000 have been appropriated for and nearly all expended on the project of 1882. During the past fiscal year the channel between the inner beacon and the railroad wharf has been widened by 100 to 150 feet, making its total width 600 feet, removing shoal places and completing the project. The cost is much less than estimated by reason of the very low rates obtained for dredging. An estimate for widening the channel above the railroad wharf at a cost of $17,000 is submitted by the officer in charge. The work is designed to relieve crowding of the channel at that point. This sum ($17,000) could be profitably expended during the ensuing fiscal year. July 1, 1886, amount available..... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.... July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.. $173.48 20,000.00 20, 173. 48 17, 695. 41 2,478. 07 July 1, 1887, amount available......... (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. 17,000.00 17,000.00 (See Appendix D 9.) 10. Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor consists of a bay partly sheltered by Fairweather Island and of two small tidal streams extending inland from the head of the bay. The depth in Cedar Creek, the more important of these streams, was from 2 to 4 feet at low water and the channel was narrow and very crooked. The project for improvement submitted in 1883 includes dredging a channel 3,300 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 6 feet deep to extend up Čedar Creek, and a breakwater, 2,700 feet long, from Fairweather Island to the mainland. The estimated cost was $80,000. Twenty-five thousand dollars have been appropriated for this project, of which $22,468.41, including outstanding liabilities, have been expended up to July 1, 1887. The breakwater has been built the full length, though not to the width and height projected, and the channel has been dredged 57 feet 8872 ENG 87-4 During the past fiscal year the channel has been widened 22 feet ov its whole length, with an additional 22 feet over part of its length, unde a contract still in progress. During the ensuing fiscal year $20,000 could be profitably expende in completing the dredging and in strengthening the breakwater. July 1, 1886, amount available.... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.. $304.2 5,000. C 5,804. 2 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of $2,567.45 3,272. 6 2,531.5 55,000.0 July 1, 1887, amount available..... Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 20,000. O Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix D 10.) 11. Southport Harbor, Connecticut.-The original depth in this harbor, from Long Island Sound to the village wharves, was but 2 feet at mean low water. Between 1828 and 1838 a breakwater and dike were built east of the channel to protect it from drifting sand. The project for improvement, adopted in 1876 and modified in 1880, included repairing the breakwater and dike and dredging a channel 100 feet wide and 4 feet deep to the village wharves. For this harbor $31,087.23 have been appropriated, of which $18,000 have been applied to the last project. The breakwater and dike have been repaired and the channel has been made 4 feet deep, with a width of 95 feet outside the end of the breakwater and 50 to 80 feet wide above that point. Nothing was done during the past fiscal year. Although the proposed width of channel has not been fully secured, this improvement may be considered completed as far as is now needed. No appropriation is required for the ensuing fiscal year. July 1, 1886, amount available... $79.60 79.60 12. Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor consists of the tidal part of Norwalk River, extending from Norwalk to Long Island Sound, a distance of 3 miles. South Norwalk is 13 miles below Norwalk. Orig inally the depth up to South Norwalk was about 5 feet at mean low water; between there and Norwalk the bed ran nearly bare. The first project for improvement contemplated a channel 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep from Long Island Sound to Norwalk. In 1881 the project was modified to provide for 8 feet depth below South Norwalk. The last estimate for this work places the cost from commencement at $84,000. Up to the close of the fiscal year $77,246.66 had been appropriated for this project and nearly all expended; some parts of the river have required dredging several times. A channel has been made 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep to South Norwalk, and thence to Norwalk from 60 to 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep. This channel is in navigable condition, though it has shoaled somewhat in places. |