The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-05
HARB0R RIVER WORK.
What the Government viii Do Next
Summer in Our Waters.
CAPT. BlXBY'S PLANS OUTLINED.
Providence and Pawtucket Rivers Will
Receive Attention, as VIII Newport
Harbor, Block Island, and Other
Waterways We Are Interested In.
ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.l

NEWPORT, Dec. 5.-Below is given de-
tails Of the work planned by the United
States engineers office here by Capt. Blk
summer. AS will be seen the work in
cludes the removal Of the sand spit at the
south end of Goat Island that will make
wonderful improvement to the ap-
proach to the inner harbor of this place.
IL is largely owing to :he efforts of Com
modore Gerry of the New York Yacht
Club that any appropriation for this pur-
pose was made by the last congress- The
plans also call for completion of the har-
Dor at Block Island: the improvement of
the Providence river and other PLACES
near by on the Massachusetts, coast. In
brief detail they are as follows.
In the Providence River.
Extending from Providence to the deep
waters of Narragansett Bay small por-
tion of the twenty feet depth and por-
tion of the eighteen feet depths, aud all
the twelve feet and six feet depths in the
Sassafras Point and Field Point reaches,
remain TO be dredged.
Hyannis and New Bedford harbors.
Mass. Detail of work-amount, New Bed
ford 5000 and at Hyannis $1,000 The
channel leading from New Bedford is 60
have depth CT eighteen feet ami width
of 200 feet. 1t will extend from Buffers
Flats below Palmer's Island to the city OF
New Bedford.
Pawtucket River.
Amount of dredging to be done and
paid for is about $1,000 cubic yards, on
the Providence river, from Providence
upward to Pawtucket, a distance of
about miles "A channel 100 feet wide
with enlargements at its bend and of IL
feet depth at mean low water, has al
ready been dredged up to the deep water
opposite Grant & Co IS wharf.
1t is now intended To redredge this
channel 30 100 feet width and 12 feet
depth. for short distance below Bass
Rock, thence to Increase il to 100 feet
width and 12 feet depth, with enlarge
ments of its bends up TO above the Gas
Company's wharf, and thence TO at least
40 feet vide and to either the ledge rock
or IL feet depth, up to the Pawtucket
bridge.
Newport Harbor.
Amount $4,000 The spit extends from
the southerly end of Goat Island in a
south -easterly direction, separates two
reaches Of the 15-fooC chanGel entering
the inner Larbor IL Is now proposed to
cut off the angle formed by these two
reaches OF the entrance channel by dredg-
ing of the southeastern end of the spit to
depth of fifteen feet at mean low water |
commencing at its end (Jhs intersection
of these reaches) and working toward the
island. The depth Of water on the part of
the spit to be dredged varies from about |
five-tenths Of "A foot To fifteen feet, To be |
completed in seven months.
Block Island, Nantucket and VINEYARD |
Haven.
Amount of funds availabls. Fer Nan.
tucket. $4,000; Vineyard Haven, 5000;
Block Island. $4,000.
The general project for the improve
ment of Nantucket Harbor covers the
OF the rip-rap jetties as
training walls, one on each side of the
The general object OF the improvement at
Haven il the protection of the
"chops" Tor headlands) from erosion and
the intervening harbor from being filled by
the eroded material. IL is now intended TO
place small stone back OF all the walls
already built; and to continue the con-
struction Of similar walls, with both
large aud small stone, along the low
water line NJ both chops.
The Improvement planned for Block
Island next season Is for the completion of
he north aud west walls Of the recently
harbor and 20 build the |
wooden fender piling projections on each
tide of the entrance.
The work at Nantucket from May to
% completed in-six months, Eineyard |
Haven in two months, Block Island ia
I've months.
Hyannis Harbor is on the northern
hore of Nantucket Sound, about twenty |
wo miles east Of Woods Holl. IL is TO be
lredged TO "A depth of l5i6 feet at mean
ow water. Work commences MAY 1.
s93, and is completed In three months.
Dredging In Cauapitsit Canal, Mass