Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
Big WATERWAY FUNDS
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Work on Passaic river to cost $50
600 is planned during the next fiscal
year in maintaining the 2O-toot Ia
mel between the bay and the LOCALITY
| of the Newark and New YORK Rant
1 road bridge, it is said, consisting IN
removal or about $4,000 cubic yards
Of material to restore the 2O-to1t
level. No work ia needed, it is re-
ported, on the 16-foot level to the
Montclair & Greenwood Lake Rail-
bridge, or on the six-foot chan
mel to Gregory ven highway
| bridge, because the present depths
are sufficient to accommodate the
commerce.
In Staten Island South it is pro-
| posed to spend the 100000 during
the next fiscal year, according TO
the report, in dredging and rock re-
movaI in Kill Van Kull; in construct
ing the dixie and dredging the chan
mel north of Shooters Island; ana
in the removal by dredging of all
soft material to project depths where
possible and to rock elsewhere
throughout the entire length of tbs
channel from Kill Van Kull to Perth
Amboy, the work to be divided into
sections and conducted under at cas-
six different contracts. This project
which was adopted in the Rivers q
Harbors act of September p, 1922'
provides for a channel 30 feet deep
at mean low water and 400 feet wide
from deep water in upper New YORK
Bay through Kill Van KUN and Ar
thur Kill to deep water opposite
Perth Amboy, passing south OF
Shooters Island, including a turn
- t.z3. - IT-Asi. LEi11, and q nhDn-
mel north Of Shooters Island 20 feet
deep at mean low water and 400 feet
wide protected by a dixie. The act
of September. 1922, authorized ex-
penditure of $40. 1000 on this
waterway.
In Raritan Bay the engineers ask
for 100000 for dredging to a 30
foot depth from the 30-foot curve
northwest of Sandy Hook, opposite
a point about half way between Old
Orchard Light and SeguiIe Point,
the work TO be done by government
sea-going suction dredges, if avail
able; otherwise by contract.
No government dredging work is
proposed for Elizabeth river during
the next fiscal year, and none was
done during the present fiscal year,
the engineers report, because the
local interests did not comply with
the provisions imposed by congress
in 1918 when the 6-foot channel
was authorized. This provision was
that before any work should be
done by the United States the local
interests must furnish free Of cost
suitable places for the deposit or
dredged materials, and also release
the United States from all claims for
damages due to the possible
s%Ioughing OF the banks incident to
the contemplated dredging. The To-
| cal interests have furnished disposal
| areas for the dredged material, it Is
reported, but all property owners
located along the line of the Inn
provement have not furnished guar
! antees releasing the United States
| from damage due to sloughing of
banks. The balance of the FUNDS
made available by congress in 1913
were Withdrawn by the engineers on
June 80, 1922, it Is said, and carried
over to the surplus fund.
The engineers report states that
because no work has been done on
the river for some time it has been
greatly shoaled and damaged. 1t
has been used as a sewer outlet by
the city of Elizabeth, and factories
| along its banks. the report adds, the
upper part of the river having fall
en- into disuse as a navigable
| stream.
For Woodbridge creek $4,000 Is
asked for maintenance of the chan
mel during the next fiscal year. II
is estimated that about $4,000 cubic
yards of material will have to be re.
moved to satisfy the commercial
needs. About $4,000 has been spent
on this waterway during the present
fiscal year in dredging between the
Federal Terra Gotta Company dock
and the upper end OF h eight-fooI
project.
In Raritan river 1t is proposed Il
spend $4,000 during the next fisca
year in restoring the project depths
and widths in the main channel o.