Evening star., 1937-07-29
$4,000 ALLOTTED
FOR CHANNEL lob
Fund Will Be Used for
Dredging and Removal
of Rocks.

The sum OF $40 600 was allotted to-
day by Secretary Of War Woodrlng for
dredging operations and removal of
rocks from WASHINGTON Channel II
VIII be expended during the next few
months. continuing work already in
progress.
secretary WOodrng announced a LIST
OF allOtmentS totaling S94 472 POI from
TINS years river ana harbor appropr!a-
tons. Included in the list was an
additional $4,000 600 for developm mt
of the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal. connecting Chesapeake Bay
with the Delaware River and shorten
ing the water route from Baltimore 10
Philadelphia by 300 miles.
Thus far more than half Of the orig
lnal sl3 900 900 approprla ion has been
allotted and expended on the canal
project. Most OF the work is expected
to be finished and the canal 10 be
thrown open to water traffic by the
first Of the year
Plans Near Completion.
Supplementary plans and specifca-
tons for improvement of the Wash
lngton Channel water front are near
ing completion. Maj. Walter D. Lup-
low, War Department engineer for the
Washington area, announced today.
Army Engineers already have re-
celTed general plans for the channel
project. The supplementary plans in
clude such items as timbering for
dock framework. food lighting for
proposed yacht basins. boat power
service lines. hoist details, floats where
tenders may be landed, drivevavs and
the planting and soddlng Of land sur
rounding the basins
The specifications cover 100 differ
ent materials. according TO C A.
CLANCY. senior structural engineer in
charge OF preparing the plans.
Meanwhile there was speculation
whether the Districts share of s38a. :
600 IN the sI65000O channel I'M
provement project would be included
IN the third deficiency bill The item
is nov under consideration by the
bureau OF IIe BuOget.
Mai Gen Edward Markham. chief
OF Army Engineers. has SAID that none
OF the Sl.26l 900 Federal share OF the
cost would be allocated until the Dis
tricts money is available, althouah h
the work that calls for District ex-
penditures is not scheduled to start
until the third year of the eight-year
program.
The United States Engineers Office
has made plans to spend S285000 for
the first years work. This includes
construction of the east section of
yacht basin No !. from the west end
of the fish market halfway to Four
teenth street southwest. and the east
section Of yacht basin No. g. from
Tenth and Water streets southwest
to the vicinity Of G. and H streets
southwest, or from just west Of the
OccoQuan wharf to the edge Of the
Powell Transportation Co. Building,
Value of Canal.
Completion of the Chesapeake and
Delaware Canal will enable freight
vessels to save not only 800 miles on
the present route from Baltimore
down Chesapeake Bay to the Virginia
the Delaware River to Philadelphia
but also one days time on the trip.
According to word from Baltimore
passenger vessels plying between Nor
folk and Phila delphia may use the
inland passage afforded by the canal
when storms prevail over the out
side ocean-Delaware River route.
The canal route is from Reedy
Point on the Delaware River. 40
miles below Philadelphia. to the juno
ton of Back Greek and Elk River,
about miles west of Chesapeake
City, Md, a distance of 19 miles. with
a branch channel extended from Del
aware City, Del. for 8 miles to the
junction with the main canal from
Reedy Point
The channel will be 81 feet deep.
Other rivers and harbOrs apprOpria-
tions included $4,000 for Annapolis.
Md, Harbor; s5O,00o for Baltimore
Harbor and channel, and sl9,250 for
Mattaponni River, Va.
The list of allotments for the new
work follows:
Mississippi River, Missouri River to
Minneapolis, s27 900 900; Missouri Riv-
er. at Fort Peck, Mont. s7,7O4 900 :
Kansas City to Sioux City, $1,000 900;
Bonneville Dam. Greg. s6,940 600;
Great Lakes to Hudson River Water
way. $1,000 900; Illinois Waterway H..
S4488,95l; New York and New Jersey
channels, s3,l18,Ooo; Cape Cod Canal,
Mass, S3500,000.
Kanawha River w. Va. 81 480 900;
Black Warrior. Warrior and Tombig-
bee rivers, Ala. S1,684,00 Houston
ship channel, Tex. s1500,000; Tygart
River Reservoir, w. Va, $l500,000;
Sacramento River and tributaries,
Calf. debris control, $l,500,00
Grays Harbor Wash, sl.400,000. and
Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calf,
sl,350,o00.