United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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100 feet wide 12 feet act approved March act of June act of March allotted from appropriation Amount allotted Amount estimated Annual Report Appendix appropriation by river balance available balance unex balance unexpended July breakwater bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers commerce completion of existing compliance with requirements construction covered by uncompleted Creek cubic yards dredging ending June 30 Engineers for 1904 estimated cost examinations and surveys existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expenditure feet at mean feet deep fiscal year ending freight rates harbor act approved head of navigation House Document jetty June 13 Lake locks and dams lumber maintenance of improvement maximum draft mean low water miles Mississippi River mouth obstructions original project outstanding liabilities pended July piers present project profitably expended removal required for completion requirements of sundry river and harbor shoals short tons Submitted in compliance sundry civil act tons vessels width
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Página 88 - ... feet width from Fox Point to Fields Point, all at a total cost estimated in 1882 at $675,000. This project was completed in 1895. Another project originating in the river and harbor act of June 3, 1896, provided for securing a ship canal 400 feet wide and of a depth of 25 feet at mean low water from Sassafras Point, in Providence Harbor, through Providence River and Narragansett Bay by the most direct route practicable to the ocean by way of the " Western Passage," so called, at an estimated...
Página 84 - July 14, 1880, provides for the widening and deepening of the river so as to secure a channel of at least 12 feet depth at high water, with 100 feet width from its mouth up to Berkley bridge (above Dighton) ; thence 12 feet depth with 80 feet width (100 feet width at bends) up to Briggs shoal; thence 11 feet depth with 80 feet width up to the
Página 28 - RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. Appropriations. — The funds with which the works for the improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past fiscal year were derived from the appropriations made by the river and harbor acts approved March 2, 1907, and March 3, 1909, the sundry civil acts approved March 4, 1907, May 27, 1908, and March 4, 1909...
Página 877 - That it shall be the duty of all persons owning, operating, and tending the drawbridges now built, or which may hereafter be built across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States, to open, or cause to be opened, the draws of such bridges under such rules and regulations as in the opinion of the Secretary of War the public interests require...
Página 96 - ... of $305,000. At the time the work commenced under the General Government a channel of varying width and depth had been dredged with the money appropriated by the State and town, which would permit of 12-foot draft being carried in. The south jetty had been built out 837 feet, and a north jetty 250 feet long had also been built, but at a distance of 720 feet from the south jetty instead of 600 feet, as called for in the adopted project.
Página 427 - Southwest Pass by dredging; the construction of two jetties to maintain the channel; the construction of sills across Cubits Gap, the Jump, and Baptiste Collets Canal ; the closing of all minor outlets below the forts ; the construction of a dredge in addition to the one provided for by the...
Página 673 - June 30, 1909, was about 19 feet. The usual mean annual variation of level of water surface is about 1 foot. Connecting with the westerly end of the government improvement, Sheboygan River is navigable for a distance of 1J miles.
Página 77 - In the years 1827-1838 a breakwater 1,170 feet long was constructed of riprap granite, covering an anchorage of about 175 acres, the entrance to which has a depth of about 15.5 feet. Between the years 1852 and 1882 extensive repairs were made, increasing the width of the base of the breakwater and the size of the stone forming its sides and top. The sum of $123,431.82 had been expended at this harbor prior to operations under existing project.
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