The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-22
RIVERS And HARBORS.
Government Board Of Engineers
Reports on Improvements
Made During the Year.

A0ftlN1l0N July "a, c5i.-4h III
nual report OF Major Adams, OF the
improvement of rivers in North and
Eastern New Jersey has been submitted
and shows that during last year the fol-
lowing work was done:-
In Newark Bay. from the bar below
Passaic Light, S,447 cubic yards were
dredged. making a channel from 100 to
200 feet wide and from twelve to thirteen
feet deep through the shoal, which ex-
tended from a point 1000 feet below Pas
safe Light to opposite Twenty-ffth street
dock, Bayonne. Channels of the full di-
mansions proposed W. been dredged
from deep water, Newark Bay to Centre
street bridge. Newark. Above Newark
the required depth and width have been
made, except at Rutherford Park bar,
where the minimum width is but thirty
feet, and the bikes are in fair condition.
In the channel between Staten Island
and New Jersey 1000 cubic yards were
dredged, making the channel eight feet
deep at mean high water and fifty feet
wide from Princess Bay to the draw
bridge, $50 feet distant. The above bridge
channel was made thirty-fiye feet wide
for a distance of 1,12Q feet.
Elizabeth River was dredged of about
5000 cubic yards Of material, giving at
present a channel seven feet mean high
water, thirty to sixty feet wide, from
the mouth Up to Bridge street, Eliza
beth.
'rhe Raritan River was dredged Of
about 5000 tons of rock, which was de-
posted in the uncompleted dixie, and the
channel widened to 100 feet, with ten
feet depth.
Four bikes have been completed and a
fifth built to the length Of 1900 feet,
with $50 feet additional partly built. all
of which is in fair condition, and a chan
mel 200 feet wide and ten feet deep at low
water has been dredged to within about
eight miles of the rivers mouth. and
feet width. has been made to within 700
feet of the canal lock at New brunswick,
the limit of the project.
South River has been improved to give
an available channel depth Of eight feet
at low water and q width Of fifty feet up
TO Washington, and from Washington to
the Raritan River Railroad bridge the
depth is five feet. the Raritan Bay has
been greatly improved during the past
year. Seguine Point Channel has been
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wide, for another 100 feet Of width the
depth is nineteen feet or over. and for
another 100 feet is eighteen feet deep.
Wards Point Channels have been
dredged 800 feet wide and twenty-one
feet deep. South Amboy Channel has
been dredged for about 1908 feet long.
twenty-one feet deep, 100 feet wild and
from twelve to fifteen feet deep for an
additional 2g0 feet in width.
NJ ia xn0 Crack owing 10 Improvement
during last year, has now q channel our
feet deep up to the Matawan steamboat
deck. with widths from forty to i0 feet
Keyport Harbor has had 2,222 cubic
yards dredged, and now has a channel of
eight feet depth at mean low water. and
seventy-five feet wide for d length Of
LOO feet outside of this the available
depth is from seven to eight feet.
Shoal Harbor and Compton Creek have
been sufficiently dredged to secure a
| channel connecting the creek with the
bay four feet deep at mean low water
| and twenty-five to seventy-five feet wide
| to q two-foot curve in bay.
Shrewsbury River has been pretty eX-
tensjgeiy dredged, and now has a chan
mel through the main stem Of the river
by way of a cut west of Island Beach
| six feet deep at low water. In the north
and south branches the depth IS ABOUT
five feet over a few small shoals. which
| form after they have been removed and
| make frequent dredging necessary
The government work OF last year IN
! this section includes the removal of The
wrecked coal barge Mist in Raritan Bay
and the schooner Anna Augusta in the
Raritan River.