Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-12-01
Raritan Bay and River, Arthur
Kill and Kill Won KuII
Are Included
BY GEORGE III. MANNING
washington Correspondent OF the
Perth Amboy Evening News.)

WASHINGTON, Dec Am ap-
preparation of $500 is asked of
| congress for Improvement of the
channel in Newark Ray and Hack
ensack and Passaic rivers during the
next fiscal year commencing July 1,
1925, In the annual report and esti-
mates sent to congress today by
General Harry Taylor, chief of en-
gineers for rivers and harbors.
The sum of $2,500.000 is asked
by the chief of engineers for work
during the next fiscal year on the
waterway between New Jersey and
Staten Island. known as the New
York and New Jersey channels,
which extend from deep water in the
main channel, northwest of Sandy
Hook, through Lower New York
Bay and Raritan Bay to Perth Am
boy, and thence through the Arthur
Kill, lower Newark Bay, and Kill
van Kull, to deep water in Upper
New York Bay.
No funds are asked for work on
the Elizabeth river because the pri-
vate parties have declined to accede
to the demand of the war depart
ment officials that harbor lines be
established, it is said.
80 A~Rotb oteAtCS lIdl TIE fOUtOUU
asked for work in Newark bay dur
ing the next fiscal year will be used
in completing the dredging under
the project between the Port New
| ark Terminal channel in Newark
bay and the Central Railroad of New
Jersey bridge crossing Hackensack
river. This work is urgently needed
by industries located on the Eacken-
sack river and in connection with
the development or the Jersey City
public terminal at Droyers Point,
on the Hackensack river.
This $750,000, If appropriated by
congress, the engineers state, will be
spent as follows:
1. Newark Bay. from Port Newark
connecting channel to the junction
of the HackensacK and Passaic
channels, dredging, s375.00o.
2. Hackensack river, from juno
tion of Hackensack and Passaic
channels to the Central Railroad of
New Jersey bridge, dredging, $685.
900.
The engineers report that the
funds now available for work on
Newark Bay during the present fiscal
year will be exhausted by April 80,
1925.
OF the $2,5OO,O00 asked for ex-
penditure on Staten Island sound,
the engineers state that $2,100, 600
will be spent in dr1oging and rock
removal, by contract, in the Staten
| Island sound division of the channel
| from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad d
| bridge to opposite Carteret, and
| 100000 for dredging with govern
ment owned and operated seagoing
auction dredges in the Raritan Bay
division.
The funds for work on this part
of the waterway will also be exhaus-
ted by April 80, 1925, the engineers
report, and funds Will be taken from
the new appropriation for continu-
ing work on this project after that
date.
The channel in woodbridge creek
is in such good condition that with
the expenditure of u small balance
left over for maintenance this water
way can be kept in order without
added appropriations until 1927, the
report states.
| The channel in the Raritan river
is in such good shape that an un-
expected balance of $11,31S.SS will
| be held until the need for mainten-
ance work appears to be more war
lranted than at present, according to
the report of the engineers, and no
additional funds will be needed dur
ing the coming year.
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