Milford chronicle., 1889-08-09
ImprovIng St. Jones Rlver.


U. S. Civil Engineer Phillips went down L
Bowers on Tuesday, to take charge of III,
Government work about to be begun upoi
the mouth of St. Jones RIVER by the con
tractor, Frank c. Somers, of Camden, N. J
The Government will spend $4,000 upoi
the improvement. The contract reads as fol
lows:
It is proposed to dredge a canal 100 fee
wide 6 feet deep at mean low water anC
about $500 feet long, in an easterly direction
from the steamboat wharf, at the mouth o
the river, across the submerged flats extend
ing from the shore, into Delaware Bay; also
to dredge a cutoff, 40 feet wide and fee
deep at mean low water and about goo fee
long, across point of marshland near Whar
toms fishery, one mile below Lebanon. Del
aware; and to mark and protect the othei
end of the proposed channel, at the moutl
of the river, with revetments built Of closely
driven fender piles, disposed in accordance
with plans on file in this Office. The estima
ted number of cubic yards of material to be
dredged is $4,000. The total length of the
revetments is 100 feet.
The tide rises on an average ~ feet at the
mouth of the river and feet at Wharton IS
fishery.
Depth of cutting will be as follows; In
the cut to be made at the entrance from 2 to
AZ at Wharton's cut off feet.
The channel at the entrance will be in the
following manner:-For a width of 90 feet,
or 80 feet on each side of the centre line,
dredging will be done to a depth of six feet
below mean low water. Adjoining this cut,
and on both the north and south side of it,
an additional cut 20 feet wide will be dredged
to feet below mean low water.
Tie piles for the revetment- protection at
the out end Of the channel at the mouth of
the river, may be of sound and straight Del
aware pine or any other kind at least as good
in quality, each one not less than IS feet long
when placed in position aud eight inches
diameter at the small end, and to be driven
at least "a feet into the bottom. At the
height of 4 feet above the place of mean
high water all piles are to be sawed off
square, and no splits, or cracks or other inn
projections, that may have occurred in driv-
ing, must appear around the top ofthe piles
and both against the outside and inside face
of the rows Ofpiles, and opposite to each
other, will be fastened ? wale-pieces 10
inches square, runni ng horizontally along
the revetments and bolted together through
every other pile, with one inch screw bolts
extending through both wales and pile, the
heads to be let into the outside vale the
nuts to be provided with wrought-iron wash
ers one-eighth of an inch thick. The vale
piece mast be of sound Delaware white oak
and not less than 20 feet in length. to be
placed so as to break joints in opposite cour-
ses, The revetments must be completed
before dredging i'll the adjoining channel is
commenced.
The material removed from Whartou's cut
off is to be deposited on both sides upon the
edge of the cut.
The material removed from the channel
at the mouth of the river is to be placed in
equal quantities along both sides of the cut
70 form, as near as possible, entertainments
ofthe same height and width. These embark
ments are to be triangular in cross-sectiou,
with base about 65 feet wide, the apex or
crown to be 20 feet from the edge of the
cut, and are to be finished with as much
as can be obtained with the usual
dredging plant.
The United States will not be responsible
for any damage that taay be done to private
property by the contractor or his agents dur
ing the p rogress of the work