continued and fully completed to a distance of about 330 feet from the initial point on the shore, and the foundation was laid and the jetty partially completed for an additional distance of 56 feet. The improvement in the depth of water noted as having followed the construction of the west jetty is still maintained. The amount asked for is to be applied to the further extension of the east jetty. July 1, 1886, amount available ... Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 $4,167.88 15,000.00 19, 167.88 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of $4,987.09 5,699.65 13, 468.23 July 1, 1887, amount available..... 250,000.00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.... (See Appendix C 2.) 3. Wood's Holl Harbor, Massachusetts.-Before improvement the site of the present works was a submerged point of land extending from the shore of the harbor. The adopted project for the improvement of Great Harbor, Wood's Holl, was for the construction of retaining-walls on the shore, a hollow pier and wharves for the use of the United States Fish Commission and to serve also as a coaling station for vessels of the Revenue Marine and other branches of the public service, and as a harbor of refuge, also for the removal of dangerous rocks from the strait of Wood's Holl. A supplemental project for dredging in the rear of the coal wharf extension to afford a berth for public vessels was approved November 27, 1885. The amount expended on these works to June 30, 1886, was $77,859.71. The retaining and pier walls and the dredging of the interior of the hollow pier and the berths for public vessels had been completed, and the coal, the west, and the cross wharves had been essentially completed. The amount expended during the last fiscal year, including liabilities outstanding June 30, 188S7, was $14,095.79. The pier and retaining walls have been constructed, the basin and berths for vessels have been dredged, and all the wharves as projected have been completed except a small amount of planking on the coal-wharf extension; the dangerous rocks in the strait have been removed and the small amount of dredging in the rear of the coal-wharf extension has been completed. The completion of the planking of the coal-wharf extension will finish the improvement as far as projected. 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 (See Appendix C 3.) 8872 ENG 87--3 $46.95 14,500.00 14,546.95 $10,592.53 14,095.79 451. 16 4. Wareham Harbor, Massachusetts.-The object of the improvement is to deepen and widen the channel leading from Buzzard's Bay to Wareham. The commerce of Wareham is carried on in sailing vessels, and the channel is to be made a beating channel for such vessels. Another object of the improvement is the raising of Long Beach. Before improvement the ruling depth in the harbor was about 7 feet at mean low water, in a narrow and very crooked channel. Long Beach, a narrow sand spit at the mouth of the harbor, was washed and abraded by the waves and currents at high water, and the material was carried into and shoaled the channel inside. The original approved project of 1871, for the improvement and its subsequent modifications, provides for a channel 250 feet wide and 10 feet deep at mean low water from Barney's Point down to the entrance to the harbor. Above Barney's Point the width of the channel is to be 350 feet, with the same depth-10 feet-as below that point. The plan includes also the raising and strengthening of Long Beach, of which a large portion was submerged at low water, to carry it above the storm waves and currents and to hold it there, in order to prevent the filling of the improved channel above by material abraded from the beach. The total amount expended on the improvement up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, including liabilities outstanding at that date, was $64,952.64, and the result was that the channel in the upper part of the harbor in front of the wharves was carried to its full width and completed, and about one-half of the reach below the wharves was excavated to its full depth of 10 feet below mean low water. Long Beach had been raised above high-water storm tides, except in a few places, so that the major part of the wash of sand into the improved channel inside the beach had been stopped. The ruling depth of the approaches to Wareham had been increased from 7 to 9 feet, and the channel greatly widened in all the reaches. Vessels of larger draught can be carried to Wareham thau formerly. The increase in width of channel was a great help to all vessels in beating in and out of the harbor. The amount expended during the last fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, was $4,751.50. The eastern half of the second and third reaches below the wharves, and one-fourth of the fourth reach, which extends to Barney's Point, were deepened to 10 feet at mean low water. The channel for about one half its width from Barney's Point to Wareham has been deepened to 10 feet. It is proposed to apply the balance on hand July 1, 1887, and the amount asked for, towards the completion of the channel from the deep water above Long Beach to Wareham. July 1, 1886, amount available Amount appropriated by act appproved August 5, 1886.. $47.46 15,000.00 15, 047.46 July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.. July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities.. $4, 143. 89 4,751.50 July 1, 1887, amount available 10, 295.96 í Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project... Amount that can be profitaby 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. (See Appendix C 4.) 4,050.00 4,000.00 5. Westport Harbor, Massachusetts.-This is a new work, no approtion having been made for it until by act of August 5, 1886, there was appropriated $1,000 "for sand fence." Before the commencement of the improvement the site of the present work was a point of sand forming the northern and eastern boundary of the entrance to the harbor and subject to erosion by the sea and tides. The approved project is to construct wooden jetties, filled with stone. at the end of Horse Neck Point, to stop the wearing of this point; the number and spacing of the jetties to depend on the price at which the work is let. The available funds are sufficient to construct but one jetty. Work was commenced June 22, 1887, and was in progress at the close of the fiscal year. Amonut appropriated by act approved August 5, 18-6..... 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 (See Appendix C 5.) $1,000.00 $65.22 109.34 890.66 6. Taunton River, Massachusetts.-The object of the improvement is to deepen and widen the channel leading to the city of Taunton, at the head of navigation, so that vessels of 11 feet draught can reach the city at high water. In its original condition the channel was narrow and obstructed by bowlders, and from Berkley Bridge to Taunton the depth was not, in places, more than 5 feet at mean high water. A vessel of 30 tons burden was as large as could go up to Taunton. The approved project of 1871 and its subsequent modifications provides for a channel 60 feet wide and 11 feet deep from Weir Bridge to the ship-yard; a channel 80 feet wide (100 feet at the bends) and 11 feet deep from the ship-yard down to and through the Needles and Brigg's Shoal; thence to Berkley Bridge a channel of the same width and 12 feet deep, and from Berkley Bridge to the deep water at Dighton the channel was to be 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The depths are estimated from high water. The ledge which crosses the bottom of the river at Peter's Point and the numerous bowlders which lay on the bottom and sides of the channel from Taunton to Dighton were to be removed. The amount expended on the improvement of the river up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, was $137,388.39. With the exception that but 40 feet of the 60 feet of width could be dredged between the bridge at Weir and the ship-yard, on account of interfering with private property, and that the hardness and depth of material at the sides, the 80-foot channel was not, in all cases, dredged to its full width, the channel down to Berkley Bridge had been completed. The major part of the dredging below the bridge had been done, but this part of the channel still lacked in width at some places. The channel had been cleared of bowlders from Taunton down to Berkley Bridge. The work of removal of the ledge at Peter's Point had been commenced. The greater part of the material blasted in the eastern half of the channel had been dredged and deposited in the form of a half tide dam running from Reuben's Island to the west shore of the river, with the view of accelerating the current in the dredged channel off and above Dighton and preventing deposits in this part of the channel. The amount expended during the last fiscal year to June 30, 1887, including outstanding liabilities, was $16,229.96. The results were the completion of the channel as proposed between Berkley Bridge and Dighton, with the exception of the removal of a few bowlders and a small amount of dredging, leaving the channel above Berkley Bridge as at the beginning of the fiscal year, as stated above, and vessels of 11 feet draught can now reach Taunton, at the head of navigation. There remains, to complete the existing project, the completion of the dredging of the channel and the removal of the bowlders between Berkley Bridge and Dighton and widening and deepening at a few points above the bridge. A survey of Taunton River is in progress, and when completed an estimate of the cost will be submitted. July 1, 1886, amount available...... July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of July 1, 1887, amount available... (See Appendix C 6.) $19,611.61 $12, 728.69 16, 229.96 3, 381.65 7. Warren River, Rhode Island.--This is a new work. The officer in charge in his report upon the survey, made in compliance with the act of July 5, 1884, stated that the obstructions to navigation were a rocky reef below Little Island and a submerged bowlder near mid-channel, opposite the lower wharf of the town of Warren, and recommended that these obstructions be removed as far as could be done with an expenditure of $5,000 for both purposes. It is proposed to apply the available funds to the work in accordance with the approved project. Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886.. liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886.. July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities.. July 1, 1887, amount available..... (See Appendix C 7.) $5,000.00 $3.10 30.50 4,969.50 8. Pawtucket River, Rhode Island.-Before improvement the channel in the river had a ruling depth of about 5 feet at mean low water. The original project for its improvement provided for a channel 75 feet wide and 7 feet deep at mean low water. This project was completed between the years 1868–276. The approved project of 1883 provides for the excavation by dredg ing of a channel 100 feet wide and 12 feet deep at mean low water from the deep water above Red Bridge to the ledge opposite Grant & Company's Wharf at Pawtucket; thence the excavation by blasting of a channel through the ledge to Pawtucket Bridge of the same depth and 40 feet wide. The amount expended to June 30, 1886, was $101,959.46. The channel had been excavated under the original project to a width of 75 feet and a ruling depth of 7 feet at mean low water, and under the project as modified in 1883, a new channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide, with wide enlargements at the bends, had been carried from its mouth at the deep water just above Red Bridge, a distance of about 8,740 feet, or to a point about 1,000 feet above a line drawn from Bucklin Island to Swan Point Wharf. The amount expended during the last fiscal year to June 30, 1887, including outstanding liabilities, was $9,010.24, and the result was the extension of the channel about 1,200 feet up the river. This completed portion of the channel is already a great benefit to the commerce of the river; a ruling depth of about 6 feet can be carried from the upper end of our present work to Pawtucket. With the $50,000 asked for it is proposed to extend this channel further up the river. The work yet to be done is to excavate by dredging the channel 12 feet deep and 100 feet wide from about 500 feet below Bishop's Point to a point opposite Grant & Company's Wharf, and from thence to Pawtucket Bridge to deepen the channel through the ledge to the same. depth, with a width of 40 feet. 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, 1836 July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities.. July 1, 1887, amount available...... $46.50 30,000.00 30, 046.50 $3, 148. 60 9, 010. 24 21,036,26 302, 478.00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project.. Amonnt that can be profitably expended in fiscal year ending June 30, 1889 50,000.00 Submitted in compliance with requirements of sections 2 of river and harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix C 8.) 9. Providence River and Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.—The object of this improvement is to furnish a wide and deep channel for foreign and coast wise commerce from the ocean to Providence. Before the improvement of the river was commenced in 1853 many shoals obstructed navigation, and at one point in the channel, a place called "The Crook," the available low-water depth was but 4 feet. There was expended between 1852 and the 30th June, 1882, $290,459.34 in deepening the channel, first to 9 feet, then to 12 feet, then to 14 feet, and again to 23 feet, as the increasing sizes of vessels and the growing commerce of Providence demanded. Bulkhead Rock was also removed during this period to a depth of 20 feet below mean low water. The approved project of 1878, modified in 1882, under which the work. is now in progress, provides for a channel 25 feet deep aud 300 feet wide, suitable for large ocean vessels, extending from Fox Point, in the city of Providence, to the deep water of Narragansett Bay, and for an anchorage basin between Fox and Field's points, 300 feet wide, at a depth of 25 feet; 600 feet wide, at a depth of 20 feet; 725 feet wide, at a depth of 18 feet; 940 feet wide, at a depth of 12 feet; 1,060 feet wide, at a depth of 6 feet. The amount expended on the present project up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, was $210,930.89. At that date about one-half of the excavation required for the anchorage basin above Field's Point had been done, Bulkhead Rock had been removed, and the condition of the six straight reaches into which the 25-foot channel 300 feet wide is divided was as follows: The Fox Point, the Sassafras Point, the Field's Point, the Pomham, and the Pawtuxet reaches had been completed, and the lowest, the Gasper Reach, had been excavated to a width of 200 feet. |