The Washington times., 1908-11-18
Cost of Improvement in
Potomac Placed at
So, 599,118.54.
HALF MILLION MORE
WILL BE REQUIRED
Land Reclaimed Estimated at 628
Acres and Appropriation
Is Asked.

According to the report of the Chief
OF Engineers, Il. S. A. made public
today just $685., 1854 has been
/ expended in improving the Po-
tomac at Washington The balance
now available from the appropriations
that have been made at various times
for this work, is given at $3.50. 79Zu. and
it is asserted that $544, go a viii be re-
quired 10 complete the work as planned
originally.
The report says the expenditures re-
suited in the dredging off a channel
twenty feet deep and $50 feet wide
through the bar above Long Bridge, IN
Increasing the width Of the natural
channel just below Long Bridge by 90 to
600 feet and in deepening il 10 twenty
feet; In dredging a channel $50 feet wide
and twenty feet deep through the bar
In the Virginia channel near Giesboro
Point in dredging the washington
channel TO a width of 400 feet and a
depth Of twenty feet: in dredging be
tween this navigation channel and the
wall Of the adjacent reclaimed area to
d depth of twelve feet. I'm dredging at
the junction OF the Washington and
Virginia channels; in dredging the tidal
reservoir, III acres, TO a depth Of about
eight feet, and restoring this depth TO
70 per cent Of its area; In several times
redredging cuts twenty feet deep through
bars which had reformed by freshet
action Ia the Virginia and Washington
channels; IN the completion of repairs
10 the reservoir outlet. In the cOustruc-
tlon Of about u per cent OF the iule.
gates and bridge for the tidal reservoir.
In The construction of 35r2Sy linear feet
of sea wall, OF which I,lO6 linear feet
has been taken down and relaid: ana in
the building OF 1896 linear feet OF a
training dixie, containing about u 2Is
cubic yards Of stone
Land Reclaimed.
The land reclaimed by these opera
lions, IN the new Potomac Park, amount
To CPS acres. The material deposited 10
help make this a park is 1861 6l6 cubic
yards, of which 13,4545l6 were dredged
Lv the Government and about $4,000
u-nc from private parties working uu-
der permits.
The report says that the project is
about thrce-fOurths completed and asks
that the amount estimated as necessary
be given for the construction of an ad-
ditional sea wall. reconstruction of
10000 feet of damaged sea wall. dredging
in the Washington channel and the con-
struction of tidal gates.
The benefits already noticed from the
work, the report sta es have been large
The work on the Potomac below
Washington cost up 20 date about
Sl65. 90. or a little more than the amount
asked for originally Almost 100 GO
cubic yards of dirt have BerB dr6dged
from shoals and the channel IS now
tweuty-fOur feet deep and 20 feet wide
from The city south No request is
made for more appropriations.
On the Improvement of the AuacOstia
river 10 date, just $50 SOLOS has been
spent. and as a result, the report states.
a channel twenty feet deep and at least
800 feet wide has been secured for
distance Of 9,130 feet upstream from the
mouth Of the AnacOstia up 10 the center
of the navy yard. Up 10 date, ], 132, 451
cubic yards have been dredged.