Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ..., Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1892 |
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... ending June 30 , 1893 . $ 6,900.00 6,900.00 5,000.00 11,900.00 Amount ( estimated ) required for completion of existing project ..... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 ...
... ending June 30 , 1893 . $ 6,900.00 6,900.00 5,000.00 11,900.00 Amount ( estimated ) required for completion of existing project ..... Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867 ...
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... ending June 30 , 1892 , have been $ 4.302.44 , which expenditures have been applied to the widening of the 29 - foot entrance to the inner harbor . July 1 , 1891 , balance unexpended .... June 30 , 1892 , amount expended during fiscal ...
... ending June 30 , 1892 , have been $ 4.302.44 , which expenditures have been applied to the widening of the 29 - foot entrance to the inner harbor . July 1 , 1891 , balance unexpended .... June 30 , 1892 , amount expended during fiscal ...
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... June 30 , 1892 , amount expended during fiscal year July 1 , 1892 , balance unexpended . Amount appropriated by act approved July 13 , 1892 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30 , 1893 ...... $ 24 . 24 , 15 , 15 , Amount ...
... June 30 , 1892 , amount expended during fiscal year July 1 , 1892 , balance unexpended . Amount appropriated by act approved July 13 , 1892 Amount available for fiscal year ending June 30 , 1893 ...... $ 24 . 24 , 15 , 15 , Amount ...
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... June 30 , 1891 , inclusive of outstanding liabilities , was $ 155 At that date this channel , from the entrance to ... ending June 30 on the Red Hook and Gowanus Creek channels , inclusive of out ing liabilities , was $ 39,081.95 , and ...
... June 30 , 1891 , inclusive of outstanding liabilities , was $ 155 At that date this channel , from the entrance to ... ending June 30 on the Red Hook and Gowanus Creek channels , inclusive of out ing liabilities , was $ 39,081.95 , and ...
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... ending June 30 , 1891 , was $ 42,688.36 . With this amount two pile dikes have been built , one on the north side of the outer end of the channel , the other on the south side , their lengths being 1,058 feet and 820 feet , respectively ...
... ending June 30 , 1891 , was $ 42,688.36 . With this amount two pile dikes have been built , one on the north side of the outer end of the channel , the other on the south side , their lengths being 1,058 feet and 820 feet , respectively ...
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100 feet wide 1892 Amount available 20 feet act approved July Amount appropriated Amount estimated amount expended Appendix appropriated by act approved July 13 August August 11 available for fiscal balance available balance unexpended June breakwater bridge bulkhead line canal Chief of Engineers commerce completion of existing compliance with requirements construction Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards deep at mean dike dredging east ending June 30 entrance estimated cost existing project expended during fiscal expenditures feet at low feet long fiscal year ending harbor lines Harlem River Hudson River Island jetty Lake Ledge Lieut Long Island Sound mean low water miles mouth navigation obstructed piers Point removal repairs required for completion requirements of sections riprap river and harbor rock Secretary of War September 19 shoal shore snags stone Submitted in compliance survey tons unexpended June 30 vessels wharf wharves width Willets Point York Harbor
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Page 736 - ... of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War...
Page 99 - The originally adopted project (1879) was to deepen the entrance by means of converging jetties, and to improve the interior channel by longitudinal dikes, so placed as in some instances to form tidal reservoirs for the scour of the channel. The project was revised in 1881, and provides for excavating a channel at the outlet 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep at mean low water, to connect the bay with Dead Horse Inlet, and to dredge the interior channel...
Page 570 - White and Lobster Rocks, and connects about 3,000 feet northward with the Black Rock Channel, which is the most eastern, near Nahant Beach. The project for improvement was adopted in 1884. It provides for the excavation of a channel 200 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water, from a point near and east of the White Rocks, to deep water opposite Little Nahaut, a distance of 3,610 feet.
Page 565 - Ledge had been reduced from 11 to 14 feet mean low water; no work had been done on the breakwater. Two channels had been dredged in Harbor Cove, approximately parallel to the heads of the wharves; the east channel was 550 feet long, the west 1,000 feet long; both were...
Page 564 - England fishing vessels. It is situated at the southeastern extremity of Cape Ann, 20 miles northeast from Boston. It is easily entered when the dangerous storms of this c.oast occur, and provides a secure, ample shelter for all classes of vessels, except from south winds, and from these a moderate extent of protected anchorage is afforded in the inner harbor. It contains in the outer roadstead, the inner harbor, and in the...
Page 330 - Huron had been barely completed when the demands of commerce so enormously increased that the work of obtaining a depth of 20 feet throughout was undertaken, with the full sanction of both legislative and executive authority. A necessary part of the project is the construction of a new lock upon the site of the old State locks, to have a length of 800 feet between gates, a width of 100 feet throughout, a depth of 21 feet on the miter-sills, and a single lift approximating 18 feet. The canal is to...
Page 668 - NEW HAVEN HARBOR, CONNECTICUT. New Haven Harbor is a bay on the north shore of Long Island Sound, extending about 4 miles inland, and from 1 to 2 miles wide. The Mill and Quinnipiac rivers...
Page 25 - September 19, 1890, appropriated $3,500 for completing the improvement. The project was to mark the rocks by a beacon and the shoal by a spindle, the remainder of the appropriation to be expended in removing bowlders from the channel above Addison 'Point, the work to be done by hired labor and purchase of materials in open market. The work was commenced in June, 1891, and completed during the, following August. A stone .beacon was built on u Channel Itocks " and an iron spindle was established on...
Page 788 - ... said bonds shall be deposited in the treasury of the said city, and shall be drawn and paid by the comptroller of the said city for the several objects and purposes provided in this act, upon vouchers in a form to be prescribed by the said comptroller.
Page 107 - The project for the improvement was adopted in 1881 and provides for dredging a channel 4 feet deep at mean low water and 100 feet wide from the mouth to...