Ellsworth American., 1909-12-15
IMPROVING OUR RIVERS.


-.-,,rt OF tlfe WORK Uoa0 - rOSsseAu
hep~ D,strIct for Past Year.
,.npnsl report Of the United States
I;nssr., department for the Portland
as,r;ct has been given ont and shows the
o'' .rt az river and harbor improvement
nmnleted and in force for the fiscal ysar
c s,no on June 30, 1909. The only dredg-
s done in Portland harbor was the rs-
~ r., Of 52.o62 cubic yards, which was
nIs.r trom Fore river above the Portland
s.;dge and was completed By the Eastern
r.sdginr r Co. on Sept. II, 1908, at cost OF
Si,sssa. ~. n... .,u...
.nd barbors ON the Maine coast Ia - fol-
-. The Improvement OF Lubec chan
-, has been completed and there was no
-.ort during the year. Nothing was done
The breakwater from Mount Desert to
n,rc,p;ue island 1t Bar Harbor. The inn
nrovement OF the hsrbor Of Sullivan Falls,
roth;ns was done during the year. At
Irn;on river there was no work during the
,-sor on April q, 1909. an allotment OF
ak e5o was appropriated for this improve
r,ent at the mouth OF the river at Ellis
woytb. The contract was awarded to the
D II. Doyen Co., OF Portland, and the
dredging operations are now going on
there.
There we're no operations at the Baga-
auee river during the year and no expen-
ditures.
On the Penobscot river operations
during the year consisted in widening the
channel at Bangor under contract with
Eastern Dredging Co., which covered the
entire project. The work involves the re-
moval OF about 1900 cubic yards OF ledge
and abou, 1900 cubic yards of other ma
terial, consisting OF gravel, bowlders, ETC.,
all measured in place. The average cut
ting is about two feet, and the area is
about 1900 feet long, with an>> average
width Of 100 feet. Work was commenced
Sept. IS, 1908, With chisel machine for
breaking up the material to be removed,
suspended during the winter, resumed
MAY 5, 1903, and continued down to the
present fall. On the 2Sth OF May the ex-
cayation OF loosened material with a
dredge was begun, and by the close Of the
fiscal year about 5000 cubic yards OF ma
terial, scow measurement, had been taken
up; but as the area has no. yet been swept
to determine whether or not the full
depth has been secured, accurate informa-
tion as to the real progress is not at hand
About 5000 square yards Of the shoal have
been worked over. The contract price is 8
lump sum OF f124, 800. Expenditures dur
ing the year were t815.32.
There were no operations or expendi-
lures at Rockland harbor. At the Sasanos
river, operations consisted OF rock ex-
cavation near Upper He'll Gate and were
completed Dec. 26, 1908, OF cost of f27,
55s.O8.
The improvement Of the Kennebec rivel
above Bath has been in progress thorough.
out the past summer and fall and up Il
June 30, 1909, al, ,524.s1 had been expended
for dredging the channel between Gardi.
ner and Augusta. Expenditures on the
portion of the river from the mouth Il
Gardiner have been $61, ,743.S7.
There were no operations on the Sacs
river. Tho expenditures Cape Porpoiss
amounted to ea2, ,l29.S 81 and consisted of tn,
excavation OF submerged ledge to wider
the outer entrance channel under contract
which was completed Dec. 4, 1908. Thers
were no operations at the hsrbor Of tn,
Isles OF Shoals during the year. Their,
were no operations at the Cocheco river O
the harbor OF refuge at Little Harbor, N
H., during the past year. sqs