New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-22
RIVER AND HARBOR WORK.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE LAST YEAR IN
NEW YORK HARBOR AND ALONG THE
NEW-ENGLAND COAST.


NETWORK HARBOR AND ALONG THE
NEW ENGLAND COAST.
Washington July 2L-The annual report OF lieu
/ tenant C Commander Daniel Delehanty, Supervisor
| of New-York Harbor, to General Craighill, Chief
OF Engineers. dwells principally upon the system
finally adopted for the disposition OF city garbage
which had hitherto injured the harbor. Full ac-
counts Of the new contract and the Barren Island
plant have already been published Commander
Delehanty says that the plan will. in his opinion
promptly lead to the utilization Of the cellar dirt
for retaining submerged land within the harbor
limits. Dumping the street sweepings. ashes and
other hoatable material behind closed bulkheads,
insuring good profit in the reclaimed land will in
his opinion, populariZe 1t ana ERECT great I'M
provement In the appearance Of the harbor.
He recommends drastic measures TO stop the I'M
lawful dumping of ashes by steamboats, and ferries
in the harbor The system in the supervisor S
office makes it impossible illicitly to dispose OF
cellar dirt without detection, and this dirt, to-
gether with dredgings. will. he says, amount 10
more than 100000 cubic yards annually. He sug-
gests extending the system of statute TO steam
boat ashes His office has kept tally on the dis
posal Of 100000 cubic yards Of material in
the last fiscal year.
Major d. w Lockwood. in charge Of river and
harbor improvements the south coast Of Massa-
chusetts Rhode Island and part Of Connecticut, in
his report of operations for the last fiscal year.
says the harbor of refuge Nantucket has rapidly
advanced. the east tetty being now nearly mile
long. of which S95 feet put In during the year
Dredging has not yet begun Dredging
tinued In NewB Bedford Harbor and II Is expected
that anchorage eighteen feet in depth will short
ly be secured. In Taunton River the improved
channel is now completed from the head of naviga-
ton down to the mouth of Three Mile River and
all that remains to be done is the widening of the
channel at point below and the removal Of one
rock ledge. which will be done next year
yar1s Of
removed. and the only work still TO be done
is 10 straighten the channel In the lower part OF
the river and 10 deepen 1t at points where II has
shoaed and through the ledge to the full depth OF
twelve feet and width of forty feet.
In Providence River and Narragansett Bay dredc-
Ing continued the main twenty five foot
channel. Notifications OF the sewer system Of the
city Of Providence and the removal OF Green Jacket
Shoal at the mouth of the Seekonk River will #
is thought materially aid in the maintenance Of the
channel. Two acres Of Green Jacket Shoal were
deepened by dredging during the year and this
work will be continued
Considerable progress made in the work OF
removing Spindle Rock in Newport Harbor Addi-
tjona jetties outside Of Goat Island the excavation
Of the remainder of the ten-foot anchorage area
and the removal of obstructng portions OF Spindle
Rock contemplated in the future
The new breakwater Of the Point Judith IIarbor
of Refuge Is now over a mile long 2s7 3l5 tons q,
stone having been placed I'm II during the year II
is now than half completed and will steadily
progress next season
AT the Block Island Harbor Of Refuge on account
OF lack OF appropriation little was done. The main
breakwater needs repairs. and the enlarged inner
harbor ought 10 be dredged to ten feet.
In Pawcatuck River dredging and the removal OF
powders has given channel eight feet deep and loo
feet wide below the wharves al Westerly. r. l., TO II
width Of forty feet between the lower and upper
wharyes A wider channel OF ten feet depth Is con-
templated
Al Stonineton Harbor the channel has been
dredeed across Noyes Shoal The breakwater Is to
bs continued 600 feet at its eastern and 700 feet
its western end.
No work WAS done during the year at Hyanns.
Edsartown Harbor, Vineyard Haven and Wexford
Harbor. a. ,.,,.
Lieutenant Colonel Mansfield reports to the Chief
of The Army Engineers that the preservation OF
existing improvements I'm Boston Hartor consisted
I'm repairing breaks I'm walls at Deer Island al
cost OF 5000 The free use OF the twenty-seVen-
foot main channel was restricted by reason OF
Lodges uncovered by dredging. This WAS reinedie1
for a space OF $50 feet wide between Lovers and
GaII0pe Island 1l2 cubic yards OF the ledge having
been removed The channel is now 90 feet wide up
10 sag Light then 80 feet to the passage, "U ieet
wide through the ledge, which VIII eventually DE
widened 10 900 feet . ,,,o. ,..
During the year work at Newburypcrt Harbor mas
been confined to extending the south tetty' whch Is
now $40 feet long , =, porwo,
Nothing was done In the Merrimac In fo""oA