For the commercial statistics, see "Report of the improvement of Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island." July 1, 1891, balance unexpended Money statement. June 30, 1892, amount expended during fiscal year. July 1, 1892, balance unexpended July 1, 1892, outstanding liabilities.. July 1, 1892, balance available... Amount appropriated by act approved July 13, 1892. Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.. (Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project..... Amount that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1894 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. $14, 253. 44 14, 235.36 18.08 5.90 12.18 10,000.00 10, 012. 18 23, 096.00 23, 096.00 C 12. IMPROVEMENT OF GREENWICH BAY, RHODE ISLAND. Greenwich Bay is an arm of Narragansett Bay, located in the towns of Warwick and East Greenwich, R. I. It has a length from northwest to southeast of about 33 miles and an average width of 13 miles. ORIGINAL CONDITION. The channel leading to the town of East Greenwich was deep enough for the demands of commerce, but so crooked as to render navigation difficult. PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT. The present approved project of 1888 provides for the straightening and widening of the channel by the removal of sand bars, called Long Point, at a total cost, as estimated in 1888, of $2,000. (See page 650 of Annual Report of 1889.). APPROPRIATIONS. Upon the present project appropriations have been made as follows: 1890, $2,000. Total up to June 30, 1891, $2,000. AMOUNT EXPENDED AND RESULTS TO JUNE 30, 1891. The total amount expended on the present project (including $92.92 outstanding liabilities) up to June 30, 1891, was $1,989, with which about 210 feet length of the point of the shoal at Long Point was cut off, and the channel was somewhat widened over a length of about 500 feet. OPERATIONS DURING THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. Value of United States plant, $0.00. Including $0.00 outstanding liabilities the expenses of the year were $11.00; work being confined to payments of outstanding liabilities and to minor office duties. od spuntes it from the watertestileering, has checked shod and nosed deposits, so filing the TATA & save me a oth unhealthy and disagreable odors. The present appevand project of 1889 proposes to dredge the cove to the bevessary depth and to increase the flow of water by larger open ings in the causeway, so that the garbage and waste thrown into the water will be carried away by the current, at a total cost, as estimated in 1889, of $5,500. (See page 591 of Annual Report of 1890.) A plat of this cove was published in House Ex. Doc. No. 65, Fiftyfirst Congress, first session. APPROPRIATIONS. Upon the present project, appropriations have been made as follows: 1890, $5,500; total up to June 30, 1891, $5,500. AMOUNT EXPENDED AND RESULTS TO JUNE 30, 1891. Total amount expended on the present project (including $138.03 outstanding liabilities) up to June 30, 1891, was $2,405, with which the cove was dredged in places where specially needed and four bridge trusses of 30 feet span each were prepared for use over openings to be cut in the causeway. OPERATIONS DURING THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. Value of United States plant, $0.00. Including $186.65 of outstanding liabilities the expenses of the year were $1,282.56. At the beginning of the last fiscal year no work was in progress. On June 17, 1892, the work of cutting through the causeway and erecting bridges was commenced, but on the 20th June, in order that communication by land with the island of Rhode Island should not be cut off until after the completion of certain contracts of the Navy Department, work was stopped, to be resumed in July or August. The bridges are framed and ready to put in position. This work was under the local charge of Mr. E. Parrish, as assistant engineer. WORK REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE EXISTING PROJECT. To complete the existing project it is only necessary to cut the causeway, finish the abutments, and erect the bridges. Coaster Harbor Island is in the collection district of Newport, which is a port of entry. The amount of revenue collected at Newport in the last calendar year was $881.19. The nearest light-house is Gull Rock Light. The nearest fortification is Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. These This harbor is at the main entrance to Narragansett Bay. waters during the summer and winter constitute a harbor of refuge for our European and coastwise commerce quite equal in every respect to ENG 9240 that of New York Harbor, and are even more accessible. The objects of the improvement are to widen and deepen the southern (the main) entrance to the harbor, and to enlarge its capacity for vessels seeking refuge in storms by increasing the area and depth of the anchorage within it. The mean rise and fall of the tide is about 3 feet. ORIGINAL CONDITION. Before improvement the capacity of the inner harbor was limited by shoals, and it was not adequate to the number and size of vessels seeking it for refuge. The southern (the main) entrance was obstructed by a bar which stretched out from Goat Island, and the general business wharves of the city could not be reached at low tide by vessels drawing more than 8 feet. Between 1873 and 1875, $28,500 was appropriated to dredge a 12-foot channel up to the city wharves and build a small jetty to arrest the flow of sand into the main channel and harbor, and to protect the western face of Goat Island. (See page 29 of Annual Report of 1873.) This work was completed in 1876. PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT. The present approved project of 1880, as modified in 1882, 1883, and 1884, provided for work as follows, at a total cost, as estimated in 1884, of $132,000. (See page 562 of Annual Report of 1881, page 561 of 1882, page 603 of 1885.): Deepening the southern entrance to 15 feet at mean low water and widening it by dredging Goat Island Spit northward to a line drawn from the dolphin which marks the spit to clear the permanent dock at Fort Adams by 100 feet, and by the excavation of a channel 750 feet wide and 15 feet deep at mean low water around and to the eastward of this dol phin; excavating to 13 feet at mean low water the area included between the 13-foot curve on the west, a line drawn from the southwest corner of Perry Mill Wharf to Lime Rock on the south, the harbor line on the east, and a line drawn parallel to and 50 feet from the City Wharf on the north; excavating to 10 feet at mean low water the area northwest of a line drawn from Lime Rock through the spindle, which is in the southeast part of the harbor; the excavation of a channel 10 feet deep at mean low water along and outside the harbor line south to a point opposite the Gas Company's Wharf, and the construction of jetties on the western shore of Goat Island to arrest the drift of littoral sand and gravel into the southern entrance. A plat of Newport Harbor, showing the plans of the work, was published in the Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1885, Part I, page 604. APPROPRIATIONS. Upon the present project appropriations have been made as follows: 1881, $25,000; 1882, $20,000; 1884, $20,000; 1886, $15,000; 1888, $12,000; 1890, 12,500. Total up to June 30, 1891, $104,500. AMOUNT EXPENDED AND RESULTS TO JUNE 30, 1891. The total amount expended on the present project (including $1, 295.88 outstanding liabilities) up to June 30, 1891, was $104,480, with the following results: The area to be dredged to 13 feet within the harbor has been completed. The channel along and outside the harbor line south to a point opposite the Gas Company's Wharf, and the 15-foot channel 750 feet wide around and to the eastward of the dolphin on Goat Island Spit, has also been completed. The berth for vessels at the Quartermaster's Wharf at Fort Adams had been deepened to 10 feet at mean low water, and the littoral sand from the outside of Goat Island had been stopped for the present from washing into the channel at the southern entrance of the harbor by the construction of a jetty on the west side of the island. The southern entrance is completed for vessels of 15 feet draft, and of the total area (about 90 acres) to be dredged within the harbor about 66 acres has been completed. OPERATIONS DURING THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. Value of United States plant, $2,800. Including $0.33 of outstanding liabilities, the expenses of the year were $18.13. No work was done on the above project but rendering of reports and completion of payments for past work. Based upon the special report submitted December 19, 1890 (see page 736 of Annual Report of 1890), Congress, in its river and harbor act of 1892, extended work under past projects for this harbor so as to include the work of removal of the spit at the south end of Goat Island to a depth of 15 feet, at an estimated cost of $24,200, thus increasing the estimated cost of Newport work to a total of $156,200. WORK REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE EXISTING PROJECT. The work required to complete the existing project is the excavation of the 10-foot anchorage area within the harbor, the removal of Goat Island Spit to 15 feet depth, and the building of additional jetties outside of Goat Island whenever they may be required to arrest the drift of littoral sand and gravel into the harbor entrance. OPERATIONS CONTEMPLATED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1893. It is proposed to apply the funds asked for to the completion of the existing project. Newport is in the collection district of Newport, and is a port of entry. The amount of revenue collected at Newport in the last calendar year was $881.19. The nearest light-houses are Lime Rock and Newport (Goat Island) lights. The nearest fortification is Fort Adams, Newport, R. I. Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30, 1893.. Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. 25, 001.87 26, 700.00 26,700. 00 |