Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-03-03
VOL. III.
IBY AUTHORITY
Laws of New Jersey.
oHAPTER /.

An act authorizing the United States to change
the channel of Cheesequakes creek
!. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New jersey, That the
State OF New Jersey consents and authorizes the
United States to change the channel of Cheese
qoakes creek, where it empties into Raritan
bay, in the county of Middlesex and its tribu-
tary according to the plans and report of Bre-
vet-Major General John Newton transmitted
by the secretary of war to the forty-sixth con
gress of the United States, as follows:
The proposed improvement of the bar is by
means of jetties of heavy stones running out
into the bay about fifteen hundred feet nearly
at right angles to the present shore line and
about two hundred and fifty feet apart, on
platform made of pile timber securely RATED:
these jetties are to be built to the level of mean
high water at the shore ends and gradually
slope to the level of halt tide at the outer ends:
the width on top is to be six feet, with batter
OF one upon two, on the seaward or outside and
one upon one, on the channel side channel
two hundred feet wide and five feet deep at
mean low water is to be dredged from the pres
ent channel to the outer ends of the jetties: the
present flow of the creek is to be damned by a
dixie from the railroad bridge across the present
channel to the gravel bar as soon as new
channel is completed; at the mouth of Buck
creek 1t is proposed to construct a jetty about
two hundred feet long, to give proper direc-
with Cheesequakes creek; from Buck creek
60 New Landing. there is fair channel of four
feet and over at mean low water; at the latter
place 1t Is proposed to turn the creek by means
OF cut through the salt meadow, thereby
avoiding bad bar lust above and also a sharp
bend IN the channel; this cut viii enter the
creek again at Forman's dock, but in order to
get rid of sharp bend just above this dock it
Is proposed to carry the cut still further and to
dredge off the point of salt meadow ON the op-
ito 10 ~ L. H.
cut effective, two short dikes are required one
starting from the shore at or near New Landing.
and running on the left of the channel for about
seven hundred feet, and another above For
mans dock, about three hundred feet long to
turn the water into the new channel small
amount of dredging is also required to give a
channel OF yur feet at mean low water for a
short distalte above; about one-quarter of a
mile above Forman's dock there is another
sharp bend, which it is proposed to cut of, by
dredging through the salt meadow: this cut
Will be about eight hundred feet long, and re-
quires about three hundred feet of dixie where
1t enters the old channel again; from this point
It will require dredging to give a channel of
four feet at mean low water nearly all the way
to Whtehead's dock, there being only few
holes of more than that depth; Stump creek,
winch joins Cheesequakes creek between the
railroad and county road bridges it is proposed
to dredge a channel three feet deep. at mean
low water, and fifty feet wide; all the dikes are
to be according to the general plan, with a
width of five feet from out to out of piling, and
filed with rubble stone, with such notifications
as shall be necessary as the work progresses, in
order to accomplish the improvement contem-
plated"
2. And be it enacted, That the board of
chosen freeholders of the county of Middlesex.
are authorized to remove the present bridge
across the mouth Of Cheesequakes creek, to and
across the new channel when the said new
channel shall be completed by the United States
government.
3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved February 5, 1881,