The amount expended during the last fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, was $3,535.12, and the result was the completion of the channel to its full width and depth from the deep water opposite the village of Lottery to Certain Draw Point, with the exception of a small amount of ledge rock which extends into the channel near the latter point. The work required to complete the existing project is the dredging of the channel to a depth of 8 feet at mean low water and width of 100 feet from Certain Draw Point to Westerly, and a width of 40 feet between the upper and lower wharves of that town. Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886...... July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities $12,000.00 $2,150.55 3,535. 12 8, 464.88 July 1, 1887, amount available ...... 26,637.00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project........ harbor acts of 1866 and 1867. (See Appendix C 15.) EXAMINATIONS AND SURVEYS FOR IMPROVEMENT, TO COMPLY WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THE RIVER AND HARBOR ACT OF AUGUST 5, 1886. The required preliminary examinations of the following localities were made by the local engineer in charge, Lieutenant-Colonel Elliot, and reported by him as not worthy of improvement: 1. Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts.-(See Appendix C 16.) 4. Little Narragansett Bay entrance to the wharves at Watch Hill, Rhode Island. (See Appendix C 19.) And it appearing, after preliminary examination, that the localities. were worthy of improvement he was charged with the survey of the following: 1. Vineyard Haven Harbor, Massachusetts.—(See Appendix C 20.) He was also charged with the survey of the following, the results of which will be duly submitted when received: 1. Taunton River, Massachusetts. 2. New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts. IMPROVEMENT OF CONNECTICUT RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT, AND OF RIVERS AND HARBORS ON LONG ISLAND SOUND, CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK. Officer in charge, Lieut. Col. D. C. Houston, Corps of Engineers, with Lieut. J. C. Sanford, Corps of Engineers, under his immediate orders. 1. Thames River, Connecticut. This river is a tidal stream extending from the city of Norwich, 15 miles south to Long Island Sound. For 11 miles above its mouth the depth ranges from 16 to 80 feet; improvements have been virtually confined to a stretch of 34 miles below Norwich, in which the most troublesome bars lie. In 1829 the channel depth over these bars was 5 feet at mean low water. In 1836 a project was adopted for making the channel 100 feet wide and 14 feet deep at high water (11 feet at low water) by dredging and by building piers. In 1878 a channel 14 feet deep at low water was projected and in 1882 a modification was adopted, providing for a chan nel 200 feet wide and 14 feet deep, to be obtained by dredging and by building five dikes or training-walls along the outer curves of the channel. The estimated cost was $208,080. The total amount appropriated for this river is $304,300, of which $82,500 was appropriated since the adoption of the present project. Three of the proposed dikes have been completed and 1,580 linear feet of the fourth one, or about one-third its total length, have been built. Dredging was done between the dikes in 1882, 1883, and 1884. Two of the dikes need slight repairs; the channel has about 10 feet available depth. During the past fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, $6,050.55 have been expended in extending the fourth dike and in repairing one of the others. The officer in charge reports that $100,000 could be advantageously expended in a single year in completing the remaining dikes and in dredging. 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.. $4,688.31 22,500.00 27, 188. 31 $4,948.36 6,050.55 21, 137.76 July 1, 1837, amount available Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project....... (See Appendix D 1.) 105, 580.00 35,000. 00 2. New London Harbor, Connecticut.-This harbor includes the lower 3 miles of Thames River, from the New London Wharves to Long Island Sound. The project for its improvement, adopted in 1880 and slightly modified in 1882, provides for removing to a depth of 16 feet at mean low water the southerly part of a shoal of sand and bowlders lying east of New London Northern Railroad Wharf. The original depth on this shoal was from 5 to 15 feet. Nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars have been appropriated for and expended on this work. The required depth has been made over nearly the whole area contemplated in the project which is regarded as completed, no further work in that direction being desired. Amount appropriated by act approved August 5, 1886 July 1, 1837, amount available (See Appendix D 2.) $2,000.00 1,795.67 204.33 3. Connecticut River, Massachusetts and Connecticut.-Above Hartford.-From Holyoke, Mass., 34 miles above Hartford, down to Enfield Falls or Rapids, a distance of 18 miles, there is a fair chaunel 4 to 5 feet deep. Enfield Rapids extends about 5 miles over a rocky and uneven bed, with a total fall of 32 feet. From the foot of Enfield Rapids to Hartford, a distance of 11 miles, the river bed is broad and sandy, with a channel 2 to 5 feet deep. Several years ago the Connecticut River Company constructed a small canal around Enfield Rapids, through which boats of 3 feet draught and 80 feet length can pass. The several projects under which work has been done have been for dredging at Barber's Landing and for construction of wing-dams. In 1878 plans and estimates were submitted for the construction of a canal around Enfield Rapids; these estimates were revised in 1880. The estimated cost of this canal was $1,322,805, but it was not considered advisable to begin construction with a less sum than $450,000, which has not yet been appropriated. Up to the close of the present fiscal year $100,000 have been appropriated for this part of the river, of which $90,866.80 have been expended. All the work done has been dredging, construction of seven wingdams, and repair of the same. During the past fiscal year the wing dam at the mouth of Farmington River and the upper wing-dam at Barber's Landing have been repaired where their shore connections had been undermined. The funds on hand from previous appropriations are sufficient for such repairs and temporary improvement as will be needed during the ensuing year. The benefit to be secured by a permanent improvement would be the reduction of cost of transportation of bulky materials to a large manufacturing district now wholly dependent on railroads. July 1, 1886, amount available July 1, 1887, amount expended during fiscal year, exclusive of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1836 July 1, 1887, amount available (See Appendix D 3.) $10,000.00 866.80 9, 133. 20 Below Hartford.-Between Hartford and Long Island Sound, a distance of 50 miles by course of channel, the depth on the bars was formerly 5 feet at low water, the worst places being between Hartford and Middletown, a distance of 19 miles, and at Saybrook Bar at the mouth of the river. Dredging was carried on and small wing-dams constructed by private parties and by a State corporation up to 1868, with uo permanent benefit. In 1868 a project for improvement by the United States was submitted, under which a pile-dike was built at Hartford and annual dredging done on the bars below Hartford until 1880. In 1873 a project for the construction of three jetties on Saybrook Bar was adopted; two of these have been built; the third will probably not be required. In 1880 a project for permanent improvement on six of the worst bars between Hartford and Middletown was adopted; it contemplated building riprap wing dams, rectifying the banks and protecting the caving banks by mattresses, at a total estimated cost of $330,487. It has since been found necessary to extend this project to include annual dredging at these and other bars and the extension and repair of the Saybrook jetties. The total amount appropriated since the adoption of the last project is $161,250; two of the contemplated permanent works have been built, a training-wall at Hartford Bar, and a wing dam at Glastonbury Bar, the total cost being $40,715.34. In addition to the work included in the estimate of $330,487, the east and west jetties at Saybrook have been extended and repaired and a channel 120 feet wide and 12 feet deep has been dredged between them, and from $5,000 to $10,000 have been annually expended in dredging to maintain a depth of 9 feet on the bars between Hartford and Haddam Island. During the past fiscal year, including outstanding liabilities, $19,140.92, have been expended in strengthening and repairing the jetties at Saybrook, in increasing the height of part of the Hartford trainingwall and in dredging to maintain the 9-foot depth. The most important part of the improvement of this river is dredging through the bars each year immediately after the spring freshets, esti mated to cost annually about $8,000. A sufficient sum will be reserved from available funds to do this work in the spring of 1888. An estimate for completing the jetties at Saybrook and for needed shore protection 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, 113.72 26, 250.00 40, 363.72 $15, 064. 46 4,076. 46 19, 140.92 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. The entire cost was estimated at $10,000. 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.... 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. (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 harbor 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, 1836, 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 1830 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 break water 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 $1,415.86 75,000.00 of liabilities outstanding July 1, 1886... July 1, 1887, outstanding liabilities July 1, 1887, amount available..... 76, 415, 86 $20,589.20 28,438.37 47,977.49 .1, 0:6, 134.00 100, 000. 00 Amount (estimated) required for completion of existing project (See Appendix D 6.) |