The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-23
JERSEY WATERWAYS
Government Engineer Pre-
SCENTS His Report on
River and Har-
Dor Work.
DREDGING ON THE PAssAIc
Several Important Branches Neg
lected Because There
Were No Funds.
Snecsalto TIC Jcrseu Cftr Nc,cs.

~ W. ksdJiuVt.us Government Engineer IN
charge Of river and hsrbor work in New
| Jersey, submitted his annual report to
the Chief Engineer Of the Army yester-
terday- 1t shows work already done,
and makes recommendations and estimates
for future work. BY order of the War
Department nothing of the report can be
published save the record Of work done
during the past year. The report opens
with a protest from citizens of Gloucester
and Salem counties. New Jersey. against
dumping mud, stone, etc, in Hopneck
channel, Delaware river. The protest is
accompanied by a letter of recommenda-
ton from Congressman Loudenslager.
Major Raymond submits a report show
ing that the protest is being complied
with 50 far and as swiftly as possible.
The improvements made are as follows:
-Rancocas river: No work was done in
that stream BY order OF May Is, 1895, on
account q an Improvement being deemed
impracticable There is a balance avail
able OF s. 1888. 10.
Alloway creek-7,Sos cubic yards of
material were removed from the channel
at the square and just below Upper Han
| cock bridge and deposited to form a dix
Ing. thereby completing the contract for
Dennis Creek-No work was done there
because Of the project not having as vet
Cooper creek-No work done owing to
me proposed Improvement not having
Goshen creek-No work done owing TO
Congress not having complied with the
recommendation to appropriate sufficient
money 70 complete the work.
yards of material dfedged from the Ru-
bridge.
the removal of lis cubic yards Of bowl
ers; 2,I36 cub yards of sand and gravel
from the limekiln bar; 2,7S6 CUBIC yards
q SANG and gravel from Rutherford
was made Ito feet wide and seven and
a had feet deep at mean low water for
90 feet belew the Greenwood Lake
erford Park bar. for 300 feet above and
below the turnpike bridge, was made
2 feet wide and, 6 feet deep. In remoy-
through the draw below Newark &c. $50
cubic yards OF mud was dredged. The
channel at the mouth of the river. below
feet and made 30 feet wide. Channels
n the river and bay have been made of
fun projected depth and width. except
Is as yet but from 60 to 100 feet. AT
| Rutherford Park bar two riprap bikes
nave been built. n on the left bank.
4 soo feet long and one on the right bank,
800 feet long; at Bellevue bar, on the left
balak. a riprap dixie has been built 1900
feet long OF stone, and the dock was re-
moved from the channel. AT the head of
Newark Bay on the left side OF the chan
mel. a pile dixie. SOS feet long, has been
pant. The dikes are in fairly good con-
d5tion. The dredged channel was sloal-
ed ABOUT two feet on Linekiln and Mid
die bars, and one foot IN Newark Ray.
below the Passaie lights. Between the
plank road bridge and the Newark n
New York Railroad bridge the width
has decreased.
The channel between Staten Island
and New Jersey-No work done because
no funds were available.
Elizabeth River-There were 3g4 e1hic
yards of shoal rock and 2.211 cubic wards
OF loose material dredged there, making
water. with a depth of from "A to 50
feet from a point 800 feet below the
South street bridge to 1856 feet above that
Raritan River-Here s,44 tons of rock
We're broken, 10. 1872 tons of rock and gravel
were removed by dredge. A channel 100
leet long and ten feet deep at man low
feet below the canal lock at New Bruins
WICK Tor 400 feet up stream and an adai-
tionai 400 feet was dredged with 60 feet
width and 8 feet depth. thus carrying an
improved channel to within 700 feet of the
canal lock. The dreaged material was
disposed OF by putting 6,535 tons In dixie
e, completing that dixie to q LOCO feet
length and partly building 800 feet of adj
ditional length. and by taking away 6.S57
tons of bikes, in Shrewsbury River.
Matawan Creek-There L, 404 cubic
yards OF material was removed from the
channel at the entrance and the creek
widered by 80 feet for 1.76O feet. making
It four feet deep at mean low water. The
four-foot channel was widened by Is feet
for a total length of 300 feet. Just
above Winkson Creek there Is now a chan
nei four feet deep at mean low water up
TO Matawan Steamboat Dock with a
depth of from 40 to 18a feet. Above the
dock for 500 feet there is a two=foot depth
and theme to the railroad bridge. 400
feet. one and a half feet deep.
Keyport Harbor-There was removed
q. 3S9 cubic yards of material and the
channel opposite the public dock and for
200 feet out towar deep water was wild
ened by 35 to los feet and made light feet
deep at mean low water.
All Shrewsbury River 6.S57 tons of rock
We're deposited along the channel n the
face Of the dixie. r~epropping it to about
low water level at an average cost of
about twenty cents per ton.